Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efc0bea572286af2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-04-02 01:36:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4bd92d5f8394ba1f4187e74d538da150 SHA-1: 73df8d92ec7947a7d47891ee55753b5a4ff7af3f SHA-256: efc0bea572286af2e81b9bfade8cc4cae3471a8cfbb9092bdcb2a96d15c5883b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to drive traffic. The primary URL, 'https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=the+signal+man+story+summary', suggests a lure related to a story summary. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and extensive link farm heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or traffic-driving campaign, potentially leading to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=the+signal+man+story+summary PDF link annotation
    • http://nowemuzasam.22web.org/asme_b16._5_flange_dimensions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dekajemo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453049/pamosezeduridajozefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakulikelanu.iblogger.org/best_paid_apps_android_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zugapuvu.mywebcommunity.org/que_es_el_destino_manifiesto_y_como_afecto_a_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bavimobuxadu.medianewsonline.com/17594323476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujojebexubab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380870/nisadivipotema-kosuxarasig-sedolevopokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavafotuzefox.sportsontheweb.net/47074966126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teveluzisobe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299025/09d228539fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://desovizipelo.onlinewebshop.net/87872161336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puwadokemizogu.epizy.com/achilles_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a03bf1e-7d80-48de-8064-5d5e0e311137/whirlpool_microwave_wmh53520cs-6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e382672b-9f4d-47a4-aef4-52f4dc859e0c/lefuvutokesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d05a19b-0be7-4763-89f6-db25b54de061/burezakodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0d87e2d-4357-4eed-bdb7-db1ba72c2ad3/21372979553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef1b1bc4-dfd4-41c8-8562-c8d30e6966de/lisapeguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kugelilizibuwum/xokutuzudomuxufofawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13aa96d3-2a65-4b47-be68-e4c522b308af/49010729370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vawoginele/92022983015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubapesopujix.rf.gd/airport_runway_markings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xufoziminep.onlinewebshop.net/retewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac331efc-d3bc-4f62-82bc-93719fc07983/53872380253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7426fa8e-857c-48ab-9d8c-96530f8c28e9/mikarazamalixixanuvopebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijazuzid.rf.gd/business_casual_and_business_formal.pdfIn 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_off00013ee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE0 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 3aaf41d5006da9575389129f53328fab8f5b69aa8258a05de2de04a43474c9c2
font_01_sfnt_off00015046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15046 10840 bytes
SHA-256: c638beffe3af30ed008d250ac104517ae14aacb453118fac6b6421581b7d4740