Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f000a1188f1664a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.9 KB Created: 2021-03-17 12:38:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3e67613355fe4e5afc1fd2bbb95424f2 SHA-1: 201b0209c5feb10c5f8ec37248a301608ebde9dc SHA-256: f000a1188f1664a277d6bdd2d62b022f767d86602f0b810bd589aced1d588c3a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=third+generation+firebird+parts
    • http://winoxolupuvil.getenjoyment.net/nelson_mathematics_grade_7.pdf
    • http://banquepopulaire-fr.org/8675788393g4syq.pdf
    • http://sitebomobegux.sportsontheweb.net/nabokazawela.pdf
    • http://xagixowedobosab.medianewsonline.com/xokubekudofijekogar.pdf
    • http://saroforati.medianewsonline.com/20637837925.pdf
    • http://hotita.space/66146319770btrob.pdf
    • http://wijetaz.mypressonline.com/nagekoxedoxevobevo.pdf
    • http://vvd.bar/mejiwumukipo4aesi.pdf
    • http://boforotaje.mywebcommunity.org/bushnell_trophy_cam_20mp_reviews.pdf
    • http://aycotoro5.xyz/rujuketog2ddci.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://ea64ff4c-51e6-4efc-8cc1-399682447901.filesusr.com/ugd/961f18_ea648e768c954ae2b1b2ab6d288b2a96.pdf?index=true
    • https://36fde204-cda4-4268-899b-58717f9005d0.filesusr.com/ugd/b13063_ac1f4d6eae52441c854cd8b075df2419.pdf?index=true
    • https://0926596c-b1e6-4473-87d6-fed2e709bfeb.filesusr.com/ugd/e2a635_a2fef38adc614f54bf5357714fdac38e.pdf?index=true
    • http://mikijanux.atwebpages.com/zerojomakunuvimuzinikibaw.pdf
    • https://d1b6b380-f15b-462b-86b5-0b089ba7d90d.filesusr.com/ugd/f99a33_2650da0c6853409ca22845e29642a390.pdf?index=true
    • https://d0275d90-c5b4-4c72-b581-d0e2b62fc6dd.filesusr.com/ugd/ee54da_da4b70b1680d4e508a2e4cca5b5d5828.pdf?index=true
    • http://saxarivoje.onlinewebshop.net/normas_de_dibujo_arquitectonico.pdf
    • http://sokekakeloji.onlinewebshop.net/fitudafetizataviduziv.pdf
    • https://41be308f-8a64-4dec-8b30-4937605be974.filesusr.com/ugd/f042fe_2473bf7807524ef5a8193fa58c3781ec.pdf?index=true
    • https://dc6b22d1-fd3c-476a-b8f1-b0505981f591.filesusr.com/ugd/ab5adf_aaec3e2636ef49d0983aea320ea54fe0.pdf?index=true
    • https://5c2df1de-05ea-4e17-9aa3-38adc7ce3153.filesusr.com/ugd/ddd609_5fac545506274f06a8e96f710f16eaed.pdf?index=true
    • https://d2faa26e-66ca-44cd-8f84-883624a71019.filesusr.com/ugd/dbbfd0_55e52edb24e04b6eb394dd362dc9ad52.pdf?index=true
    • https://d896c2b7-539c-4146-aa8a-b39d26e096d8.filesusr.com/ugd/a98ecc_f028a029aef64cb88fe4e11aae6d673b.pdf?index=true
    • http://zalatikewal.atwebpages.com/filekodiwijadulawutonuzed.pdf
    • https://6a421494-2577-4416-904f-e17348f56b63.filesusr.com/ugd/85e76a_d7310a02fc594f3ebf3629eddceca043.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001ad4b.bin
37344f7d9dd9e5bb8092920344f1f56f6c7740d88ed2c060186b679367e4d627
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD4B 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001bf79.bin
bf4725f287beb332d5bc2d022fc2b52e62bcdb951e27d9d50f177b52fe52ec0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF79 12312 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001e871.bin
b10e7a0583bf6b216a5471aeed10f14210f1dda3adb60ac5169fcb38ba12e60c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E871 16060 bytes