Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5d1b44614ee3993…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-04-04 08:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 74f6ea112943816e4e35d6d3dac24c2c SHA-1: 0aef3875db85fbae28a6ae2f85ae404c86ba3456 SHA-256: f5d1b44614ee399398fefb9efb005102b7653b88f7be95e1e9eb71ca87bae5d7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URI heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://botokaw.ru/123?utm_term=local+template+variable+angular+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://salonhq.xyz/42812016280hf24f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aycotoro7.xyz/why_is_shadow_so_important_in_american_godsuzpaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilabusifa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776169/kabulurixakuwasopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupoxebexu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134337811/5629683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamontov-net.cc/soluxakegugulugetevajadxdz1s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-central.com/75313527200lulb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abanca-electronica.com/what_is_a_quick_studydoqx9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bupetud.xyz/57879013380j7du5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latitatuforuza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398212/7773048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birirewenojitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813362/6589533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natorg.fun/blank_sheet_music_with_bar_linesjk3vs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup668.site/pizalarisulorake0ryjn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6d0c6d30-55b9-4b7f-8145-34d11b484ddf.filesusr.com/ugd/8db56d_e537fcaf9f77435c8152a7505afc5788.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b5c4f4dd-ae1f-4f6a-908c-f463551224e4.filesusr.com/ugd/dafd60_1b266fdfea20474a9ab30deadbc1f8c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pekoguwomigurup.epizy.com/abstract_images_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6f465708-eb37-4ee2-8658-ebeec6cd93ea.filesusr.com/ugd/4bb103_c1e58fe2b609477ab0834d9e729800bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://watijosanowo.epizy.com/50085655929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://90ff81fc-98d9-4e53-96a3-aaa5c1c2042e.filesusr.com/ugd/bb5aff_93ef0addb8af4ff0acbaa662a1bb630f.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_off0000e7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A1 5348 bytes
SHA-256: d898a0e87fb86e83802cfad1224d89791b240fa01a34008b6f8721a2a71e46d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CB 11772 bytes
SHA-256: 886f5ad595ce42d4472bf264129ea3c0dff2c9f35810c15183c46d0d6e24bb85