Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5572ac37ea614de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-20 14:29:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 45dac8d7ac1b7608e3dd7c2d86ad1329 SHA-1: 9d662ff47dc3f4045f1f044cf077f28c7ce9817f SHA-256: f5572ac37ea614deaf7523b265cf26c5b0abc04cc769321aa13c159130b66821
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs point to suspicious domains, and the document body, though corrupted, suggests a lure related to search results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://midufefew.ru/award?keyword=guitar+relative+chords+chart+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fitukogamoj.iblogger.org/abhinetri_2_movie_songs_naa_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tofujifudaxibav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326414/siludazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366653/normal_6048f4743e2b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelafagilu.iblogger.org/super_mario_bros_2_3ds_world_4-1_secret_exit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuburabet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362545/5205398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bupojew.22web.org/paint_shop_pro_2018_trial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lopozodedawap.22web.org/jenolan_caves_fact_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodotimafigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135981467/wurotapizi-tipusufara-rupekid-gakepudemijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470964/normal_5fea24b5790f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367281/normal_6052be2f7ae6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501660/normal_5fc79cab0263f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382643/normal_604e9113cd306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulolimepol/briggs_and_stratton_lawn_mower_engine_oil_change.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zifozujiwi/jumedijuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poxemibusap.epizy.com/xitukumubijebugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogugule.epizy.com/panasonic_dect_6.0_plus_3-handset_expandable_digital_cordless_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fab88ded-2f12-46c9-b6ec-f290036286cc.filesusr.com/ugd/cce69c_f83c3e6d240f491a944a7275b5717b20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee60c613-3dd1-430d-b711-08e3dcbf0273.filesusr.com/ugd/19ce5d_4ffc86ef5d9a4c568d97f191d4872f35.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sulegezusaz.epizy.com/42305468353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8767aa75-4bd5-48c0-94ca-24e983238001.filesusr.com/ugd/debdc1_21a7ab9f6e7740749bae5b55981e6cc3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7f03322d-63d6-449b-a8c2-a80beffeb2b6.filesusr.com/ugd/2994dd_7d7d669c0f6b4e1b93e5822b34c7d6c5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://movufitajameme.rf.gd/85144689157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98748e4b-3258-471a-903e-8ea98415cca0.filesusr.com/ugd/fd7405_ed82e6910b994b1da076c4d70428c9eb.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_off0000fa34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA34 5336 bytes
SHA-256: d348b6db992b2556eadd466c0d9a30e3c4c78749805197e1948e54a79d066713
font_01_sfnt_off00010c5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C5B 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 2493597c6a8de3abc36b3b3de9a0bd026452553616cfa6fa2d75f8f794cc7af6