Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5ed1c15305d14c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-03-07 12:03:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 7b3748aaf90e7d6384fc8ce22ade6773 SHA-1: 321b9e1fa28e362058fffb0e5bc49fe4cd94ed66 SHA-256: f5ed1c15305d14c4c2a2ec67eb4843594f0a4fa6a8589d05aa6a8e31fc0ae833
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://maypoin.ru/aws?utm_term=jim+rohn+goal+setting+quotes PDF link annotation
    • https://xaxozugine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303195/kesele_refig_fafujigimajimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pugubitef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302221/f9384ce8b8452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiseparalav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134735838/8119130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://federadedeladol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134626130/65a7cf52ef6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dagufiwus/baI0igl/space_flight_simulator_game_2019_chandrayaan_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fumozowafujazuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135331302/pagijixowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitazixozakabu.sportsontheweb.net/tiger_rice_cooker_made_in_japan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xifobariw/hTjhjeJ/okcupid_search_by_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ac4cd5cf-e861-4b1b-a585-e47049f737a6.filesusr.com/ugd/843280_efd8034a989843f89a1d83cbe6034f32.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lojabupabavize.onlinewebshop.net/silence_is_the_language_of_god_all_else_is_poor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a132b2cc-db93-4cf0-8e63-c0d4ce2dbc31/zalerurizetuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3fb740b9-71d8-4183-8edb-de11b68c0a29.filesusr.com/ugd/1fbf8b_7577ab31e1be4a48bf54db8864878068.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3682d434-6e27-4ac8-9ac2-d3ec24fa429c.filesusr.com/ugd/9b5f63_b8103f10bbcf4135a45dae5ac17d75e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8ac5c8e1-9174-427d-95c2-90bebb9f105a.filesusr.com/ugd/44b221_f90ef7196a55416e9639bb8ded5304ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://03ca3561-abfe-48ca-9b59-b1b2b77f8126.filesusr.com/ugd/1af49e_59b34636f45e4cc38b208138721aaa66.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tavoxelelenasi.onlinewebshop.net/vabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b3a1a1c9-4f8f-4fb8-b7cc-7339030cc889.filesusr.com/ugd/162fe6_079e6e8bd63847759577d050e07ac456.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://64b67c6e-fbbd-4787-add8-9ed3e274c95c.filesusr.com/ugd/eb6612_cb7579d45ff44214ad2aec7454fea7dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85e4c00a-3c97-48fb-ba85-814232e4de3c/are_marvel_masterpiece_cards_worth_anything.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30b9f784-8277-485b-931f-f79a85602785/27217375074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e50eee24-2d95-422d-8083-6f618d95927b.filesusr.com/ugd/594ae5_64a10cad75fc4174b3f30ea704c76409.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_off00010400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10400 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 6feb1cf29814d63b3dcedb74a50d6fb74b3d6c22592a8498919a6457bc80c72b
font_01_sfnt_off0001158d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158D 10728 bytes
SHA-256: f5fd07bd1b78bdbad4037c3c18443efe68c42ec16c0cb67f5efb0e435b697698