Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25fbafd2d6393506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-04 12:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: fe54e3ba928ae560e14c4ffffa7e1cd0 SHA-1: 8b5313f200460c1c2c841d0bdf9337b5b4ae9c43 SHA-256: 25fbafd2d63935066dea2f3c70647fed77b3d57b978fe1b253607cec14d4362b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary IOC is the embedded URL https://vilenefex.ru/123?utm_term=sugar+fermentation+by+yeast+lab+report, which is likely used for phishing or malware distribution.

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://vilenefex.ru/123?utm_term=sugar+fermentation+by+yeast+lab+report PDF link annotation
    • https://zubenori.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394140/5f661b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watalixajine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134635748/vetutadesetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derefejoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358497/sopesede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widisujo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137512014/kogasezotun-zuxab-xibubiwitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senuwisaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018119/579c2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ce9aa84-f15d-4ae3-b3be-04ad8f2fdc7a/how_long_is_the_bed_of_a_2002_ford_ranger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/36126fff-bfee-4705-96d3-f58fc73959fd/domufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33adf71a-e937-4005-82c7-1ddc001c2f50/mimadiluwikoveram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cbfd14d4-b3b2-4bb3-836a-b03a18265823/vodabevolasewepularol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44238672-cf1f-45be-ae44-aaf344eaeee8/nepevuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojipag.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144420024/rerelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8270df17-5943-4310-a9cb-1c3e0c97f1c0/theseus_and_the_minotaur_sculpture_gay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/671beb23-d4fb-4065-acca-2b67ccd7ef0a/zyxel_pk5001z_custom_firmware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poxanoralanu.pbworks.com/f/nexivatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0849b8a4-e1c9-4035-a148-f57c690f1f7a/optical_fiber_communication_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vugufosenene.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144574086/29407415636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxiwako.pbworks.com/f/84417687498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaneguk.pbworks.com/f/wipobogofutamuxelulunebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizunebapod.pbworks.com/f/35009798407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/861767ef-dc4b-4c89-99a2-b06472e9ce5c/what_are_some_examples_of_technological_innovations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a2cb981-a701-4468-8451-a54c1641df1e/wayne_dyer_youtube_evening_meditation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wudiwiligis.pbworks.com/f/2020_f_150_super_snake_cost.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_off0000eced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 7a930b035241770f06dbb453e173be3d4340f44dd28f3af49efe4cd70e763fc4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFCB 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0b2f9a7554c7d71c81cce90a07b0fbbaff307b701e9310a0e86434f844f7aa