Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b6fc9c87ce79f2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-03-18 10:54:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 99d626455afa0fd86fd77449b50538ed SHA-1: b6f6b0078948a4f158e9b3a13a0bd46f4cabaf25 SHA-256: 1b6fc9c87ce79f2c65795215684472d0c5e2289ffe14af7c09367f226fe76a2b
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, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure, directing users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/strik?utm_term=dark+blue+coat+with+fur+hood PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415519/normal_6030350e9e242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tosety.xyz/stars_and_rabbit_man_upon_the_hill_lyrics_dan_terjemahanr9q42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novonet.online/dnd_5e_druid_spell_tier_list8kk96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ketejeti/dhksJWp/60378532362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vumuwuxa/8hahahg/vikulutavula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/batumozi/AghVfhg/jowawudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinolefowi/bVidiac/coke_and_mentos_scientific_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4506063/normal_601f324542b8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390092/normal_6032c9e0296c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366367/normal_603e795076ae7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404520/normal_5fff3527984b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zujisofivo.onlinewebshop.net/focusrite_scarlett_18i8_midi_setup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0aed7b51-d02b-4864-a6bb-b478bb809667.filesusr.com/ugd/fbdaab_2053e779f28f4805956c7d992f11179f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba428ff1-d53d-4eb5-bdb2-cc960067f420.filesusr.com/ugd/7041e4_c68d62a0a5eb4d93abdf2c8a72caf905.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zeteximezoxa.myartsonline.com/banixisamuroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce419959-236d-4487-89d7-67f356bda573.filesusr.com/ugd/147b51_01530c2f4f9f4486af6d299384899b09.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e055bcc9-c4f1-4c6c-8dcb-0912bf54750f.filesusr.com/ugd/b4a829_34ef8ba1190e49719f2fb3fce6be0e34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be56f97b-0727-4a8e-a141-4155b83e75ac.filesusr.com/ugd/5034d0_d03fc978d2164ccbb3bb0128066cac48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b23183eb-b2e5-455e-bc25-91fac1efd10f.filesusr.com/ugd/cc14e4_f3c9befa8eb54421b91506539472459c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b81e1767-bb0d-4562-9f98-cfef66859bb1.filesusr.com/ugd/b48b60_bada706947a6431ca471ee50e74034cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bad3f395-1638-4667-b349-d6f934eeab49.filesusr.com/ugd/ed2d23_4a442d6c6fdd405b9df9398ede9540db.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_off0000f992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF992 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 51710976dc45821c5b16d3af8e5188709a4ba18a87d98838328e16fae69fcf28
font_01_sfnt_off00010b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B70 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 945c96681c5e3d5df1f3d74a0801b21dec77d06b5060eb490e2c9b09942a5322