Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9e383cd415472c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-03-06 07:43:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2505c20a5e66ac20c419a6c21146473a SHA-1: 5936e2125c00e1dad04b98daa366ce9fa5f52e49 SHA-256: f9e383cd415472c4c420aee7a738287b9d899b8ccd38949b7f8009a94f121306
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, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The embedded URL and the document body's reference to COVID-19 treatments indicate a lure to a malicious site. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=what+meds+can+i+use+for+covid+19 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457839/normal_60265c11f1937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forovasax.medianewsonline.com/kivuwuduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaxiradijewebox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889682/54d88a68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzubijixulux.mygamesonline.org/how_to_solve_ratio_as_a_fraction_in_simplest_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaxejoxumede.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346770/goxikaxikutuse-nakedi-vekopidefiz-zubiperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vomadepuxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134700608/7d4f337d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruguwafe.scienceontheweb.net/good_night_gorilla_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisamifogafize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598642/8013513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosemefawixuwov.mypressonline.com/82633156050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biweworu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525234/wepatetobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447251/normal_604204d162024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379483/normal_601e3c5545ba8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5c839259-519f-4cee-a1a2-6639d654070b.filesusr.com/ugd/140efa_b58f8963db2f403fb651cff745e38892.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a7263f3-c26f-4ea8-956f-2ed8bb49925c/67795711855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e691ad07-92dc-45fa-af10-8929b4045ede.filesusr.com/ugd/87b9a8_a4df3bd39b5745ecafdc3681ce536ad5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vorisenunajix.myartsonline.com/sivarawavotisigukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e216d865-ddc7-438b-99b2-64609380b1bb.filesusr.com/ugd/7ae8b3_f56595c0c4b544b5a346c6346f7a4ff1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0bfc9606-bbce-49d9-9f4b-ff6a8d96db86/galob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://78fa80b2-8629-447b-ad63-53e91e8d4948.filesusr.com/ugd/8f02de_3265ddb48e1a44ccb97ae66f3febe2b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://28546a20-d0cc-4b82-bb4f-6711990cd5a3.filesusr.com/ugd/0bcf16_03ae320028534d8288e8c74afe3e8c6c.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC1 5508 bytes
SHA-256: ae07ea6db6adcb5d0e06669b5c244a99c7eb221bcee2464da8429cb53c376fd8
font_01_sfnt_off0001206b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206B 10472 bytes
SHA-256: a1122734eba3b031bf9a0559117ceacc984e2800fff1ea19abeff72daf70badf