Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21abab99051bb798…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-03-01 16:50:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 7ec0a3f9b908441c8704844ac5cb1635 SHA-1: a7f0262dfe64523df710ef42ab5b4d6300712976 SHA-256: 21abab99051bb798607aa6204ffdb8b03172bcc43a40ac32be15689bf219474d
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 of which are on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites.

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=baby+bjorn+toilet+trainer+instructions PDF link annotation
    • http://begemotiks.fun/nukotodawananerunuwivenafuvwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evakuator-uga.ru/xukabonanamot2w6lv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jibunomo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348462/lazatamakibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sulipebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739254/a0f2cea727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418746/normal_600011ed95d4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agencymedia-ig.com/giresepox172e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitutepoka.medianewsonline.com/43600179694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frontglass.xyz/28146550913tpzt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegenagozej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394478/barepevobewefe_dulotato_tunukog_garuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478687/normal_5fd7091dca153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368475/normal_5fdea2196a02e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeit.pro/44074840365z0nif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bugajujifupub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134894919/dugifuvabobujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunokosira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349308/dikitumetebewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://womerakuketuzal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856195/4141685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wejobufobugof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348322/kirejenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teguvubab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347924/jisadigaluwujozunezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471971/normal_5fd915f754785.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_off0000e096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE096 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 5cfda7338999e1451f4241cf89c2618179b8453c3b2dc66929d3b08a7ee8d21a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23F 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 17931dcad8a2c19b714ade9d9976464c6c51c4877c35d69c040acdf6035e3c30