Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f98c2d44369b399d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-09 16:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8124a735ed1151c48b61cd6805f8ffd7 SHA-1: ce1a13bb90702a39bf5f599d271b814d15f4e669 SHA-256: f98c2d44369b399d34c2f8acf57017fb09280d084c172a2c193d4b8dca5b74de
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 operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to MP3 downloads, likely a lure to entice users to click on the malicious links. The presence of ClamAV and ML heuristics flagging it as malicious reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://irlanc.ru/pbw?utm_term=kanne+kanne+veesathe+kannalane+mp3+song+download PDF link annotation
    • https://lijowuvum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134624244/f79101a025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xokubimekitogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135986234/tawedelitago-zowibepuripopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367286/normal_5fce30b34fd00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463552/normal_5fd67ecfc32a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lutenidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134398581/wubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadebuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366374/db478ab14aca4fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420039/normal_60bedc405cdc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zalogarigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695681/1888537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4527108/normal_5ffb99bf01af0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420020/normal_5fe5594ba576b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxigexuwalo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134708718/wajerixojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4386591/normal_60b61a6141e00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445754/normal_6044fa9c2322d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xezujexowesujol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502134/sixoxatagi_rerezomo_pexugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://ririgifavem.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144595236/32249109890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f774b3ab-738b-4bbf-ba56-3a7a34a34fc0/gitoxepevotagevivove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58625a3f-368b-4268-8c84-f8330162345d/nerokimuvijixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a60a6018-d5c9-4f65-a34f-9f6158719b40/does_a_panasonic_viera_have_a_hdmi_port.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wufamazajo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144444693/why_wont_my_mower_deck_engage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/261d2ea7-1a79-415b-a2f8-f88b5dab7b48/fahrenheit_to_celsius_formula_in_c_language.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4983411c-7639-4c9b-840e-7bcb3a3eb30c/man_after_man_an_anthropology_of_the_future_by_dougal_dixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wesupumus.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144669600/zetobobovovotisajefobet.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_off0000ec7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7B 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 11367f65593f76c9a3416d0c19505fa1983fb2795ea61f23e4752840e765b778
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF96 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 96c9779a02c599b70ff90e1c3ae7acfc2650437c316e7272c42e301b65cb809c