Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b496d509cda96c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-03-30 04:05:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 08930d1a46323bfc4af450636d753952 SHA-1: e5cbd0d7730852209d5cd7e442a09c36962d4300 SHA-256: 0b496d509cda96c0ddbc5544e4090c9142fa20ec214946607008c33eba9395e0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://xajibur.ru/award?keyword=acute+myeloid+leukemia+nejm+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470205/normal_6014d92052932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419430/normal_60212dcf443ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xosaletozobi/vgf4iae/zuvonarojamuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/napumefu/jRMRhbM/99584105083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449629/normal_604acf52ece84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373997/normal_5fef633ab645a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411918/normal_5fcd41de8c22e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421350/normal_604ba44cbdcde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496584/normal_604df189ee635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464297/normal_60087cdd3f595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujejadalale/mgf2jfr/50223366433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wuladupuzo/GyifibL/blood_diamond_movie_mp4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369165/normal_604aa8f5d8b82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414514/normal_6016c17621dd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezofugowura/zdifhjQ/36671078731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://51bf459c-6b46-41b0-863f-532cf8a77e0d.filesusr.com/ugd/2eedf1_cd88b9342d4a48b5a7b3495ac6f055bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zekovulelopur.epizy.com/american_gangster_full_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limekukojaso.epizy.com/ligularia_reniformis_tractor_seat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://921790ca-7b53-43bd-a25d-275d6f056404.filesusr.com/ugd/9d24cb_0e9ee3f71e0140b197b606264523925a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ded05c8b-f0d8-42bc-a64b-daa0b63394ca.filesusr.com/ugd/99afdc_75bfbf81674a497cbf8478f8fa95501c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc58184e-bbba-402a-8e08-a55d552c8f3f.filesusr.com/ugd/0ebc1f_ba57a8da579e47b2a43a18c13d0ed898.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://efa91360-7c21-416c-9d60-3189e0beb381.filesusr.com/ugd/42ffc7_942a52ce4d704929a25df2e9b1e3c89c.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f02e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02E 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 37086af59b3f1afe5e3e9a189a41a7f02e02774caf56f412498aa432d832d644
font_01_sfnt_off000101a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A7 10836 bytes
SHA-256: f57f8c0a17582a821148fd44ad141361220588edf5dabf1f3b0d9ade8326a5c9
font_02_sfnt_off000126be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126BE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176