Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b2c503895ce3801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-03-30 08:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 12101e9f886a0fd740b7fbcae889cac1 SHA-1: c7c64dc63d750714e4e56fd3d9e4273ebffa0f3a SHA-256: 1b2c503895ce3801dc0a4f644b706f3324c1cedbc592efc59d339da139f743df
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that point to other PDF documents hosted on various domains. The primary URL, 'https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=cells+alive+mitosis+phase+worksheet+answer+key+pdf', suggests a lure related to educational content, likely to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure points towards a phishing or SEO manipulation 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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=cells+alive+mitosis+phase+worksheet+answer+key+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://omoikiri.info/2884849284216amp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/safubuguva/KAjc90y/crazy_family_camping_road_trip_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://particuliers-societegenerale.xyz/45007692350phv73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gorubabor/dh5heid/modern_zig_zag_wallpaper_pink.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jinuminex/adUyigF/binks_no_sake_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallehub.xyz/polaroid_one_600_classic_kamera_filmh3ndb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/natokaze/vhgDxif/classical_piano_musicians.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-delfin.ru/what_is_a_nuclear_studytnxjp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jivonaxadu/kjeNjig/silexetuxemezutokiletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/kijchgo/visolonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkostore.xyz/la_naissance_de_venuspovuq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://167c2301-eccc-4e3a-a609-38a4f17b9bf8.filesusr.com/ugd/b1dabf_a33734ca6eb04524b1fec9696c823d7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed21222e-fee3-4fab-8b52-e2ddb7bb35ab.filesusr.com/ugd/e73fea_5b44ba1094c24c50993e9f24d7750fb4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9b08d158-0e0f-4203-9b31-e1272d977b1c.filesusr.com/ugd/086daf_dec9c50a2e6d49588d07b5d78ff541f8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67dec473-0a9c-497c-80b1-62a4c84c5046.filesusr.com/ugd/0aab01_78efaf77a03148a1bde033f75780a8f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eb62986f-0112-409a-9ebe-777412bc5c19.filesusr.com/ugd/26938b_b9780a9f44cc4e6a887710e2bb8ca4d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1cd0d4d5-11d4-440c-a307-81f73801f601.filesusr.com/ugd/f0e51d_a20f095a242b4416a3256ad8c6e3dcb2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d52aed46-be45-4f9b-8106-cf6fc7ee66c0.filesusr.com/ugd/b148e5_4ccf065cf5ae47b0be7fbb332d560700.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b3fc17b-a4fb-4144-9a53-ff617e35bc6a.filesusr.com/ugd/696117_660b7e3a8fdc4978848ef6f00e76bf23.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_off0000d876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD876 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 80584a395061194bc200ef8264d4f6767611fdf1e300408342bb9900458d9db6
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: e1cde4072e5c5e23784619b25e76aead3bb0b850308259ab0b81f63a46d375b0