Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe57eb16ae717f5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-05-07 23:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0eee966378ea42bd0f8464def228cee2 SHA-1: e52ad7b8292af58116b36e1edf784ec22be9706e SHA-256: fe57eb16ae717f5fc4c43cc3e43eeb7fab9931add7f421597515a669c45a7bac
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document's content and heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, including suspicious domains like mezovuduw.ru. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a tactic to generate traffic or distribute malicious content through a network of linked PDFs. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or content-distribution scheme.

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=sacred+marriage+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kamutimasevukov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856564/fikuwex_xodezepudexusew_mawelixupobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454163/normal_603214611d803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butopejejix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814220/jafomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebezun.mygamesonline.org/math_worksheets_grade_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibadaxolakawub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882114/f8fa3d82127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derilezin.sportsontheweb.net/2003_yamaha_kodiak_400_weight.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://govoxarenaja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874143/92af9ef6005b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pusenosate.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347115/0b4055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supariwepexafat.mywebcommunity.org/nao_sei_como_terminar_um_relacionamento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485807/normal_60477dd7e2008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xidifapub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873728/9784018.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/ff969a0c-254d-4d73-86ea-53008e47bd68/end_of_the_world_lyrics_juice_wrld.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88f20a22-675b-4d66-9240-42b721d8571e/how_old_is_percy_jackson_in_the_last_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78346263-6f40-4b6a-b48a-58bc95bec5af/do_smart_meters_cause_radiation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7839f09d-bb42-401b-be7d-62218db83c2e/31301108536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1970ce7-a51e-4e85-9afd-8262cdb23bef/how_to_add_a_on_wix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavoxelelenasi.onlinewebshop.net/english_programs_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d73f8692-9fa4-48cc-8bc8-ead3b200cf0d/adobe_premiere_free_download_for_windows_7_old_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55a5fb5a-6fd2-43cd-8866-1f10f9c8c837/lactancia_materna_problemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89063688-9fd7-4814-bdd2-113d7b88a7f7/zobezoxuwupafabuz.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_off0000f13b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13B 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 23e480bfb5960c37acb87e368e28f9f519c346a3b66d0434a3545c4ea2aa4c3e
font_01_sfnt_off0001036b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036B 13472 bytes
SHA-256: b5091817a9789d370f3ee2f20309312a6bf21ff6cd9715dca0081d464573f4be