Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa02caa732acddb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-03-15 07:11:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 07a819b3b29f44fd0c68da9236699ecd SHA-1: 5677dd3961c1e1ca86e8f0f8d0a21678afd2f76b SHA-256: fa02caa732acddb3eb084693cca62f78d6d205f3c90fe063d667e8de40dd9123
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, indicating it functions as a link farm. One of the primary URLs, 'https://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=cabala+judaica+pdf', appears to be a malicious domain used in this scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=cabala+judaica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383308/normal_5fdf3cfa3519c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369506/normal_5fcd7b3398c7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426262/normal_601d2b7d91eed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373757/normal_602fc7c03015a.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/c46c6723-5498-4375-bf29-48a1dd217fa2/must_watch_anime_series_on_netflix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowafirowelumex.atwebpages.com/how_do_i_get_adobe_premiere_pro_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d22428fc-ae65-4f48-be8a-b3a78d598aa2/79985391649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9d50af6f-dbf7-41ba-b854-83985329a12b.filesusr.com/ugd/33c377_520309d41aa448bfa970c73d06b8f14d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0e8f88b9-656e-4b05-9cd8-8bd477f85547.filesusr.com/ugd/95b9ea_ef176aebc01847ac854d703054743206.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ed1ef25-4da8-43c1-9a20-c23941e94b00/ccmsetup_failed_with_error_code_0x80072ee5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a1509e9-95b5-4ab0-8c8d-d99ad4567ebb/cycleops_mag_trainer_noise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4454cc88-256b-48ad-9013-c0414c72072d.filesusr.com/ugd/67e251_d1b261c526d7488090c3f8e4cddd1368.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://254a6a59-343e-4b7e-907c-c4819e171fff.filesusr.com/ugd/decf6f_b97d8b056995458ab4a6b0238eeefb38.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bigapenegig.atwebpages.com/momegabitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bokexizometun/jopabemefilum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/816220fd-e819-4e6a-a737-b1a7fcd3c5a6/how_to_check_if_a_zener_diode_is_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e976ff7a-aa65-4a6f-a23c-3b9ebed46f55/how_to_install_hp_deskjet_3050a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777dd155-384c-4f1d-a337-8f27b94bb056.filesusr.com/ugd/1ecdae_57708265beca4b2bae788dadab9ecfe4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zebarufuridorur/how_to_calculate_interest_payment_on_a_loan_in_excel.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_off00014a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A69 4996 bytes
SHA-256: c62c72ff114499f5a72aa6000d647baec9b7a801e52c69b3712ccb6af794f9df
font_01_sfnt_off00015b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B78 20044 bytes
SHA-256: c9ddb166aeaf088fcded4e13ebd7b5beca7c5cae0eb5bbd9ee44e7f449b3a219