Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fafc234452f8d7ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.5 KB Created: 2021-05-14 02:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 6da69a6c562fe10bdc5f41c3e98d8b8a SHA-1: 81101684e385a98d5413a41a0328c31232a9cfea SHA-256: fafc234452f8d7ad6afe538962c90cd0c69fc6cc963ae3f5b49769f1e34b4db2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards a tactic of redirecting users to potentially malicious or SEO-abused content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+the+penal+substitution+theory+of+atonement PDF link annotation
    • http://vemasujananexu.22web.org/latitude_e6410_backlit_keyboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomaduworofa.medianewsonline.com/lejivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naviguxiva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266723/letiluzu_ledumaxeziwoko_wuboguf_zimogepufadodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorabawik.medianewsonline.com/panasonic_kx-tge270_factory_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seweripuwas.mywebcommunity.org/wawabadixupepepago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gubilipolijig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707964/4006030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lenegimuni.epizy.com/kelobanitasonukomuzejupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f862c7e-1f3f-479b-974f-4ff0855469e0/bidarudajegiretenegetupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/622a2cd5-a355-4d82-98b7-10522f0dd374/nuvilidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e79f887d-dd52-4dd8-b9bb-724b6675265b/72602769267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c72a6d71-2fad-4f5a-8b7a-a7c165485bce.filesusr.com/ugd/a4966f_e4afda7b87814d6d97f5b9ee1be57f19.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d135d24-b837-4c47-82a4-f2afb9070486/what_is_personal_development.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8369b072-c8c2-48ac-834b-f6a95e91cd87/29743665416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wokeben.epizy.com/soladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67cd2662-c656-4016-93e7-451c28700e4e/healthrider_s300i_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c84ffda1-e72a-45fa-8ce8-a771970cf326.filesusr.com/ugd/9fd656_c569fddedaa5459faa67b57608d5c0db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lanekozelibafu.rf.gd/limikikepatopagebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0b21792c-a699-4cf4-8833-5910c6ad58af.filesusr.com/ugd/b0b521_d1b33a7b5c754a629edf17da38dd1f36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://teropisarazo.myartsonline.com/bankmed_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4192d618-ecd7-4808-8485-efd4d6773ded.filesusr.com/ugd/17a5db_9a7f406dd95b4e1fb981f8148e5155a1.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_off0001aa4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA4A 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 8e73cd2edce7b2369a77b360094ce36e64ccdb9b0e689a2c4cdfc1f57388b7cf
font_01_sfnt_off0001bc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC8C 11664 bytes
SHA-256: 97b22964b37aa78056bd6bf8e8b6e2f1bbe7260df51be04b476e2d3538fd57bb