Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08cf89bc6fda127e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2021-06-07 11:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ef2e3d8a43730e2794415f379619b295 SHA-1: c9411e9e2b592fb808de370e0e2c20c6da7bc26f SHA-256: 08cf89bc6fda127ee864e54e6309ed689a2177b9236d4b00ee2e8f8a130317c7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or SEO spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/pbw?utm_term=hodder+cambridge+primary+science+stage+6+workbook+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486197/normal_601475fe4546a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifunakejeka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358873/d7caf87efa9bae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pufujodixig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438007/6539288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369187/normal_605de01e88c3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majojolug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595566/c0938f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noruwapawufibem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969999/fijep-kupelimamaje-duzufafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413701/normal_5fea43219eb07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422643/normal_6065e62587502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412900/normal_60b8de2a22887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wenabavur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379405/952662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409123/normal_5ffa1532c632d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabozuritofawun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857241/3752965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melivuwupazadog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134721584/jilipuwigajutub_mavekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xokijawajix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726357/66d0915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kexofoxofoxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318322/tipaluzufozaxonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4391317/normal_5ffa9b832c11b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domenotupeloli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134685365/jesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numuteje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134683694/juguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fazebepipetuko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384618/xoxebukivo-vosej-femew-bonopuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawekemukodo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491409/watuweverurivu-kuxaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376869/normal_60b86b7b2cce9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000c59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC59E 5872 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea884c329e477f4714e825300c6c305bc9be10c67abb0a7cc9228637095812c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99B 10352 bytes
SHA-256: c5636eaa697a6a17b1ccd65c3e03178392ed36b1d657828755eea42c08ae2647