Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7a324c9c26b5862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-11-09 23:20:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4d8579c593b8f71d3c0472ec67bfb383 SHA-1: 4fa1fc10468a6806afac9f816aa1309ed4620a3d SHA-256: f7a324c9c26b586297a608607dc519143b9c49511fbdd05b82a911a5a0508c7e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'Up jawbone setup android', indicating a lure to potentially malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://trafficel.ru/strik?keyword=up+jawbone+setup+android PDF link annotation
    • https://vaxajiwozoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/fa3a8d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vafumigoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384305/b7d50e2acf269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawowigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774982/kunivelulaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zixamagexiwu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012381/632543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sokuvotaboraj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776263/maxew-tijutojekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383132/normal_5f93bbda5b293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zeginuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775519/600e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jolefopasovoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134402584/dadugipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xalipifizipig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379045/meduvezikavisobasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419820/normal_5f9739de63bf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384650/normal_5f9ceb2740baa.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/nowokil/manual_aspen_plus_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nimuwet/fapadagigub.pdfIn 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_off0000c5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5CA 5220 bytes
SHA-256: d8567d07e6b6c8197d38b93fa2c4c2b5c274e1e0138abd0a7ac9b5aaebabbcd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A8 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 0de5400374f6aa5c40d73537aa07c5c7f5777dbc767f2a8cef58fabf37b4c4e2