Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a9ec90b094287d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-03-18 07:08:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 429d9e30c3768270bdc28e29664ad626 SHA-1: 09ffa2eeda280f544d4ad1f244e2213f43adfaaf SHA-256: f8a9ec90b094287dda60a9bd84489ecb61db23ba27fa4fa1fb5cd45944c235b4
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URLs embedded within its structure. The presence of 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests malicious intent. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing sites or further malware distribution, aiming to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/123?utm_term=dota+2+auto+chess++steam PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixafosabow/hiUiioY/sudoku_medium.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wixexozesila/heqichh/lelobotisizexizorefitelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ninuxoti/NhggdHq/moneygram_money_order_service_charge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tebefaravuz/c4XogcL/2940298599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nozujeraguje/Rr5v7jd/zujazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kominepoli/ifhdsgb/ice_princess_full_movie_disney_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xeveweno/hhfrBja/32666890050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kovezozeseg/ziejjsZ/how_to_draw_anime_curly_hair_male.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rupomotiz/Kkyjagf/my_btc_wallet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393790/normal_603be547ae6be.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mowanideju/ighOSZa/rolozevo.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rebamomidaw/iiyjcjg/tiwerapokijubenare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366311/normal_6047a1358e672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezfix.asia/993554689204e58z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jopubelo/gfGhd6j/pewdiepie_world_download_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yozi.store/habit_tracker_printablezg5il.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mewovegid/gMhdNhi/lujefoxepiwubisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gizafimode/mvThjeu/xatidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rupomotiz/Kkyjagf/myIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://ba85394b-11ac-4ca4-926b-74ca936c52e1.filesusr.com/ugd/5ccfc8_46ae0bdaec044a21b4cd040ce8e0c0fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://86a9da1b-0b57-4b35-a77a-523886b904cd.filesusr.com/ugd/0d9a50_571251bdd26b4998b4e58deecc27fc0f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d1ced4a1-fa29-4c66-b583-77209f32159a.filesusr.com/ugd/c88d8b_12412659672f4ffd93749d657bf9d6ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f07eb630-23ff-4298-a1df-d7940f1ba2dc.filesusr.com/ugd/097a5b_f286247eb50541fba2478ae95f557d95.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cc968bdf-8a18-4a65-a72d-893c706ef441.filesusr.com/ugd/bae363_968ea801ca0442218f2c22c0a6e51ac1.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE661 4768 bytes
SHA-256: eaf569cf1d108d19f28728fbf7992d217e5755f6b901c7dc627f2fe694a81a27
font_01_sfnt_off0000f692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF692 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1F 10668 bytes
SHA-256: b4a3e88deb4a4379a095af003482d56ff48a0a10061333a424dc4d8d966d066c
font_03_sfnt_off000123e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E5 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4f9904cc63eeb245c31300081beae5dd130040598f84ad13cd294c90142161
font_04_sfnt_off00013a18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A18 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2