Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 015f63c29040e3af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-04-03 17:27:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 86f3fbb6a39b4744aa3e67060f6fb3f7 SHA-1: b81db34110032bbef485d35caae5de1faef3800f SHA-256: 015f63c29040e3af7027b7c0e9e69f65941eff2e90b97e4a9f5d59de4cd42941
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary URL, https://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=tascam+dr-05+vs+dr-05x, is likely part of this campaign to redirect users to malicious 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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=tascam+dr-05+vs+dr-05x PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493876/normal_601fac6230a31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378605/normal_6037a2ee72c06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426269/normal_6017ace244083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478664/normal_6055acf2a067c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379029/normal_5fcc9960b4b5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://povulofi.mywebcommunity.org/39977083095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazejofeg.mygamesonline.org/overcome_elevation_worship_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikomowaxibujoj.medianewsonline.com/ford_maintenance_near_me.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/64a32a03-313e-4c37-90cb-222356e0e409/vedujadekinawinipamoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0eb210c2-f54e-4563-a51a-bc23268c8a51/10888221124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6ca40675-ab1e-4801-beaa-58650aeb2216/jodagijaxusodojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe43cc87-8c44-44b6-a5da-3c922302ec69/2nd_grade_math_book_go_math.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6998e30b-c911-4113-ab34-4c15204891c7.filesusr.com/ugd/429b25_83a569ce40714c299b220096b9e62805.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1649ce38-f12d-4ebc-83d6-cdb844e0c151/fetax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2dd7d27-2bbe-4714-9708-59df95f209b0/is_it_safe_to_use_vicks_in_humidifier_for_baby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3b1a0cff-dc54-4917-88c1-cdf904a8db56.filesusr.com/ugd/60aab8_66f848b4ecd34d96937131d3e67efb4c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e01f5aa1-0836-4b7b-9647-ebe325d9a45d/how_to_remove_battery_dyson_dc59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44c70ba7-9ec9-4d35-9b25-12e183971da1/87611079591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2c869c6-e8bf-4b9a-a8ee-1e93bd499f10/5_4_3_2_1_coping_skill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0178dcaf-eb49-4e7a-b921-f3e33b6a4338/visoxafarofaz.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_off0000ec6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6A 5428 bytes
SHA-256: e30dc0beae1030d0b862fc58b2d30b632003b6684cb5066f42a1dd379bd30f2d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED8 10900 bytes
SHA-256: b72867d37b6f1c8c73a5ea6d85638898abca255e3f4dbf4f2ea79b74a8672f12