Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee82e4f95838ab03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-30 15:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 65637d45c1e36e48b458e9d2f7ed79d5 SHA-1: 21ef81b9f7367708bd4b9089f32ade9af5542d73 SHA-256: ee82e4f95838ab0370ae5756a140b16e8a92d23de092fc49e147559402c37b05
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URLs embedded within it. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a URL related to 'The greatest showman all songs' suggests a lure to attract unsuspecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://kuzutuzo.ru/123?utm_term=the+greatest+showman+all+songs PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497688/normal_604ccf090b96b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421062/normal_601f11ce282fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467277/normal_60051060b8f23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xomuxurek.22web.org/juvenile_nasopharyngeal_angiofibroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setefigidoral.iblogger.org/hog_raising_feeding_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dazesejep.iblogger.org/how_to_communicate_effectively_in_the_workplace_ppt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443342/normal_60540d3af044b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvijedujame.iblogger.org/2020_current_affairs_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415974/normal_5fee092ac5655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407313/normal_604ce6c6ce3fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365594/normal_60470bac28039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392861/normal_60129788d0f8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5e6d3f51-9b35-4a29-baf4-1f036254a461.filesusr.com/ugd/99a8f2_06c0ae936db5489d86b998b5f762264b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f770b3d7-c897-40e0-9323-5ad0abd91552.filesusr.com/ugd/1fa6dd_2310f817bef148d1a6be374666aaa055.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4192d618-ecd7-4808-8485-efd4d6773ded.filesusr.com/ugd/17a5db_7a150cdb34a6421c83d4280f657f038b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fa202315-5cd5-4006-9a99-7c5d4406650e.filesusr.com/ugd/61804c_7780ee445e4043c3ab413aab17a4288d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nafabumawo.rf.gd/carrom_board_game_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuvufitimasex.epizy.com/fotomedotudedizube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8a6b9437-e7f2-49d7-8c24-351b272aa67a.filesusr.com/ugd/b18e4d_b669c5c5b9084fbca7f53eabee8301cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9fbaa0db-fe9e-443e-b503-3d02ea494c21.filesusr.com/ugd/d417e9_b7674181f3c04bb7a1071c915f3d833d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://32e47638-7206-44c1-ad53-5c6f9176402e.filesusr.com/ugd/e00742_f4432621e9f04d9d9df5ce6452f4c2da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF722 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 11a39e7f551cfa638e67aa6f163934f042669510d762c8d56ffe03f54d53adce
font_01_sfnt_off00010886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10886 11436 bytes
SHA-256: bcf340939540fb88aecdfc1071f31b9e5f5863c5a591392fffdbc68b5c3a1126