Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a9dede4b2346b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-03-20 02:50:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 8fc9950ff2ca0803aa879ed09fd7a44f SHA-1: ab36f3aefe50dc3cec804708085bace125ae8f26 SHA-256: f8a9dede4b2346b445e7f75e0aa8a984001f9eb9b759a28215ffe8497f2ea682
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 pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this file as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a potential for redirecting users to malicious sites.

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=the+bodhisattva+path+of+wisdom+and+compassion+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://powuvomewekuxeb.getenjoyment.net/cantharellus_cibarius.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4444377/normal_5ffcc58553c99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448535/normal_602baf4355128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xogunajeraxuda.mywebcommunity.org/realidades_1_guided_practice_workbook_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4493227/normal_5ff2fc50d692c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizigavitud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581125/8077730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xogunajeraxuda.mywebcommunity.org/overcoming_barriers_to_communication.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454803/normal_602e0e4662576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belesekazisose.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135397511/6588901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://javesuput.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873829/1578723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sepoxudozixo.sportsontheweb.net/reproduccion_de_las_angiospermas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46ec27d6-4b3b-4388-a05f-9928eb97cd7e/24631577107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumejefivoxigo.myartsonline.com/depituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85b63777-d2ab-479d-9f39-508ccff111a7/nyssma_level_3_violin_scales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujidafedisezu.atwebpages.com/why_does_my_polaris_280_run_on_its_side.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niselekotoz.myartsonline.com/botulismo_en_animales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kebenubes.onlinewebshop.net/9th_grade_math_lesson_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petojijoxura.onlinewebshop.net/fundamentals_of_physics_5th_edition_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7522e1da-d959-438e-b78c-b63b5a9452a3/louise_hay_guided_healing_meditation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4776eba-4f13-4507-be65-5a446abb6e6f/83739088069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d00441fa-85ca-4e5a-8eef-b3987a841c1f/is_a_tesla_worth_it_in_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67c16665-a3e4-4b46-9eef-e268bb59297e/how_to_connect_roku_2_xs.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_off0000f4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C7 5508 bytes
SHA-256: ce9ac17891481baf3d69e8427e24f816717a75ad166666c06df5dd6bba17f0d7
font_01_sfnt_off00010773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10773 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 93096878ccc8c935c7f00c4891bf74a9799bff4fe63285ee0bfb668693065470