Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2bcdd987207f882…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-04-05 22:32:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 393e7505f37505ae1ffb9dce52480c59 SHA-1: 230693a9bbe4df9f9e2f05589c3ea627bda975cf SHA-256: f2bcdd987207f882a0fff7118a9a646ca70133b6e3204bf5a8eb57c3ca3abbf6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with a critical finding indicating it contains a mass of external links. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=apc+550+backup PDF link annotation
    • http://subbellassecret.com/pabesawadonmm237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusitekive.iblogger.org/geometrical_figures_in_engineering_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketeuro.pro/wansview_ncb541w_driver_and_manualnssda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481168/normal_5fd387729eabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xidodaxu/fTvhhjh/32917805281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401714/normal_5ffcdd1f93528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403823/normal_605f36c0630df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xovijanovupu/RKPidgd/gemuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4394071/normal_5fc71946a0e83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybety.xyz/91761612247mx7wk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nukusigemug/frAR35v/sosiwagubipebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twirlini.com/498852529033gz9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e46eb8ae-11b5-47af-91b5-79e2db369635.filesusr.com/ugd/f84671_c15f0001df3e473f87be64d276de339d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39c1d623-eccb-4af0-a86a-15328a2d61f9.filesusr.com/ugd/3cb6cb_c3158e82681c445e8d2aef3193c1573e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8e75e8be-0f37-480b-85ac-641553c1acf9.filesusr.com/ugd/a4a1ce_792705d70e7440539819c746c2f49789.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a86a6b26-b473-4b55-b9aa-7628a2bff077.filesusr.com/ugd/4f270c_d59da64f70fe4abba938026561c38905.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bomigezi.epizy.com/blizzard_warcraft_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9eaa565e-fb97-40b4-b096-d6760803f699.filesusr.com/ugd/55e2c6_0ff53dbeff7e485ab0ea261dfb58cd79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://18bc7be3-897e-46c1-a475-efc190d089bd.filesusr.com/ugd/62845f_84f1ef56cb984acc97f15db411b2c14f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://20e8ec16-a7ca-487e-906f-4b2d5c2744e2.filesusr.com/ugd/ab81b8_2fee03c47bdb4d2ab293e44cc6d0bea1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://32cf4326-ba62-484c-a3ca-05d02c2dd2e5.filesusr.com/ugd/0b46e6_4200adefdf7a4f09a9182f7fff2ff8ce.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_off0000dcda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCDA 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 3855055629b450abb81c83da038dd2251b15d8dec23e25888623309c98cc15bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3F 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 5186256614d2d4905161ebedb58a184db20db3010cfbcc15fcaf58bfe07cab97