Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cbbba1385172e8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-05-07 08:28:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5454f0faed004d98acb674d8823ef19f SHA-1: 21f12930b1bad3cbfe55d9413ce79107426fb5ec SHA-256: 1cbbba1385172e8fc430fb949e0d7c0d4521ee9b7d5f2602d7f67d063e1baa7c
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 domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=what+topics+come+under+mechanics PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382773/normal_5fd1c6e228fc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lebinezekoma/0ie6wii/farufirivudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xeduwukaxusa/cjahadj/gelekomal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/napumefu/gPifkha/edible_and_medicinal_plants_online_plant_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rawerusiwala/icVggjb/cookies_must_die_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369760/normal_60257603ad2d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477655/normal_600499a29248a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471238/normal_5ff282cff0f7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493891/normal_604354f5dea68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371004/normal_60140b1d1f0e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://df6a9abb-74f3-47e1-b359-fe6d1019da36.filesusr.com/ugd/7921d2_9a17818b6a0e4a8eba982a0bb589fff9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viromibukoleliw/migekonadorunutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedbc21-cb93-402c-9ae2-3476589645d2.filesusr.com/ugd/f3ecbe_55679067bc2f4e5d908321b58b21198e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/defipedibe/tarobowukalevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://171e2b11-24ea-4535-acac-f971ec821c4b.filesusr.com/ugd/a07927_e27809e06e15412b8de1a2db440bdc83.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e22e8d81-f41f-4d51-abb1-39b19d2d32bb.filesusr.com/ugd/96bf9d_ae77d8f2c3ba41c7b42a3d6d75fcb1de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e824aeac-d22a-4b45-bb3c-17051d6ee04f.filesusr.com/ugd/de60da_ad4637caa1e34821beb0d0e5908f1739.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gavexilatuvitaz/gonotonazumowagutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f3dcd8e3-6656-4b47-a81e-a993d3c4f2a1.filesusr.com/ugd/aa9ef2_fc97418171a4408fb986eebb35aea82a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b1394492-4877-47b1-8bf2-e962974baa99.filesusr.com/ugd/3e4b7a_5a326fa3b1a4420a8ad1b42a95924a03.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45f91bdd-2b68-4e60-ae2c-b14373ae5332.filesusr.com/ugd/0d089b_7242e3c524e049c991e6d213b04f8a07.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanaladu/vilijakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://44b3a7a5-560a-4dc8-bf2c-49d9b11486fe.filesusr.com/ugd/fe0276_e67d6ea9b2a948ff9b8ae8272b4f0e3d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogevazapiwediw/what_is_ap_human_geography_practice_test.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_off00011e7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E7C 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8bf7e63ce046b7a4a5020b0fcea187b3ef5b9c8561a81c19845b3ce26bb9e0
font_01_sfnt_off00013059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13059 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 338e4c161f2f1338f047c2ab4cd766d57c580a11d0329f50529c3bf9536f93a2