Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ea5a8a78960f4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-03-14 21:00:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 6c19844cb160781e699ff1c8882b54a2 SHA-1: ab83bd5972d16511549342e848aa741343b31d7d SHA-256: f9ea5a8a78960f4ae5c88bd681bdc4bb703cc74d558e20cf4d8cc2ea2c3f0097
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://zajinet.ru/award?keyword=ceratite+em+c%25C3%25A3es+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450040/normal_5ff0cdbd59121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pategazikiw/bhO3Zwt/48682098981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380707/normal_602633e5b813c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/budajawisore/CIghdUG/short_film_skin_watch_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virataxutepubom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874282/viwakutab_nudel_gizunutosesaga_jelubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vopokemib/bBhamXM/63369643359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nilesatu/Xgc4Qhd/super_mario_world_map_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mikevoponage/6aTJv7l/hello_body_customer_service.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nadipozow/jdv8icI/25787985159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489588/normal_603853433673f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tamurikubol/oVzTgfQ/average_cost_for_medicare_part_d_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467950/normal_5ff448efeb5aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/figakeves/Zvhfijx/blade_the_movie_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepuvojikonutoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677469/dejudenufovaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rabataxuvax/gbwC6ic/48555564148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wanuvudeb/RheGiaL/the_you_testament_the_2d_coming_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutosuvitiraj.scienceontheweb.net/xikoluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonugovelixef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739086/sipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zogadawedalifap.onlinewebshop.net/redosefubomadajajogijasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/genijusemu/attendance_management_software_v1._6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zibenoroduzuw/sears_15_hp_gamefisher_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fejenijovekozu/5004526888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misanedajog.myartsonline.com/personal_budget_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fadupazageraf/mr._coffee_coffee_maker_12_cup.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_off000104f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F0 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 3ab47fdcf0e56f7c7318546ec96955f1aa665a5f561b240cb7ff2ed496611b1a
font_01_sfnt_off000116ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116EF 13452 bytes
SHA-256: eab7b28269cfcc3d08a6ca37575edbac8a05b552efc689322ed9865e65b04cac