Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9c89e350edf3118…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-06-01 10:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 89ae314b60ef82c95c1fd4e228018931 SHA-1: 28629ec8ec24ef1009be78ac6661b91ed21da18d SHA-256: f9c89e350edf3118cd58fe5b2e29f8fce98ef3e2d792ea87a852a51947b9c3c2
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 hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the high confidence scores from security tools indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://fokemale.ru/123?utm_term=lagu+dawai+asmara+cover+akustik PDF link annotation
    • https://kuzigojuzomuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683135/6101114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451744/normal_5ffa7b22c4de6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zudumatiwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873708/5251386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366057/normal_5fd1a02d35e0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459177/normal_6001f7db43e5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495042/normal_6055ca6dd5ea2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401692/normal_603c11d30053c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453721/normal_60657c62830e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409093/normal_6053bbd10bbdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niladomawinur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134875702/5d5a46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasotatuji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134392375/447655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489725/normal_5fd144386d6a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482618/normal_5fd0e471c809b.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/cd606e99-9971-40a3-90e4-7861446c339b/97562679704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zikupuzajix.pbworks.com/f/zubixumurugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugewenuzed.pbworks.com/f/12412311865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/031c6823-b1c7-4b9e-9212-33fd8dfe7646/ladiliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a50e3f9f-b548-49de-a72b-3e1ca0091c17/71111357728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88dd14da-191f-48e0-bc7e-b28b03055590/momolijetixobikefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetipufagi.pbworks.com/f/best_3x_sensitivity_for_pubg_mobile_gyroscope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fadoposapat.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144436995/kejakigurusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedidovetaw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144414486/brentuximab_vedotin_uses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72118fb1-339e-4e0e-8505-dc713bb010ff/96220205088.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_off0000d954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD954 5384 bytes
SHA-256: eec27587b5b7c728acc93f1bea72dc7046c4ccd28fa2c3039d2c0a3bbd9c72ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAF 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 70e22052de3c9f13edf0bfa941427d540043681f03670789de83a2e0f9a86244