Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27c65d58a82c934f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-04-07 23:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 20d21920cec3afb6791a1251b408ebc6 SHA-1: 3d4f93aa3c06bbf8f96fbc87083b5a82426e6fac SHA-256: 27c65d58a82c934f2ae95127079d509f5a8369f3c7077e617f6e05fb333e3d75
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, possibly for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=pathfinder+feats+to+improve+animal+companion PDF link annotation
    • http://dafesoxexigu.medianewsonline.com/the_ransom_of_red_chief_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491426/normal_6040a2938690c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484812/normal_60638501904c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zawibovime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681883/2892006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413575/normal_6018ca1e3565b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382405/normal_606b221a028d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fudamozomeb/d1jgjeE/elements_of_art_definition_of_line.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xurinuwame/gyX4Xii/labewusuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fopeziriga/gnisgcr/ringtones_for_android_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gufonesugoxemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135960051/7450121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jobubexivex/ifjbCWN/net_framework_3._5_1_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/parikozug/jAgiggO/dragon_age_origins_walkthrough_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/webipejonavuv/55096785895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b681afaf-5a6e-4e82-978a-a5ff5a8fa799/what_kind_of_battery_does_my_nissan_key_fob_need.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumurulepowele.myartsonline.com/rasterlink_6_full_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dozuga/collecting_data_from_multiple_excel_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7955068f-b68c-4e20-a93d-df7350129dcd/fairy_tale_anime_characters_female.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tarajix/defying_gravity_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43d5b8ba-df0d-449e-8ed3-b67490a9c5df/dexokitirezatudasexiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bb4aa73-036d-4ba9-a607-f20cf0653a47/angela_carter_the_bloody_chamber_analysis.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_off00011c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C11 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 497c6645f87271d7c39b7c89558674ba11fdbd4949b973fb73523a3692db95f8
font_01_sfnt_off00012e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E81 11492 bytes
SHA-256: 0e1afeb65abd1b02dc7e4ef6504acbe63baf538162e0fe4a076ae5f7bd567f84