Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bae6c2908814157…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-03-27 14:57:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 17006e6dfdb5e349514484e9a58d685a SHA-1: a8513156ead4becc6a2506d7e2707cfe4ae857a1 SHA-256: 2bae6c2908814157e8f1327e4a6d567bc2abe44a2243740ce4fc3eba064317c2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm point towards a tactic of overwhelming the user with choices, increasing the chance of a click on a malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=certificado+de+origen+en+ingles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nexolibevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134463206/maviponowobobufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofekabebo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739116/acb9c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedifubebevaze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873515/gufarapixuvoxe_kujibapeni_xeligamibesokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ganinidunop/sgPgiii/board_games_literature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gozafavapawu/vhf4yjh/60564341597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wunurobi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881210/19400deb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuzabuteke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379980/gugodanesefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lusajiki/Ul0geQj/ds_battery_saver_pro_apk_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://f26e6bca-ce10-4524-9610-ed5ef7c8d48b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac8c68_e6b28d83a56a45d097935765dbd32a4c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://77bc4ea4-de20-41c0-a463-a5315db628d9.filesusr.com/ugd/2c69e3_92e73c9a30ea402080e31ef5d4b8ae6f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://51da6a7d-ee05-4a49-87ee-1b74af3aeb07.filesusr.com/ugd/b80405_1147d04b6f1f4de0af58830f81ef0d73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://327bbe42-9aa5-4ca0-80e5-6c9857058a26.filesusr.com/ugd/2b870b_d4c1d47f7d964abcb8b1cffe30773aad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba10d46a-d7c1-43af-8542-f1a50f31aa8a.filesusr.com/ugd/4dded2_945b17883dc8407180c1f3eb7c9e858c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://78e27e65-9996-4239-a63d-7a21722db537.filesusr.com/ugd/03f576_54ee1ebd4e3840c59eef4d858643479b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://05790d5e-93e9-4545-bcc4-99c37f081c18.filesusr.com/ugd/bff4d5_d3c0deb5a71447e3a4212a60be787441.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://77a80da1-97a3-4b40-ba11-54c6d232eb66.filesusr.com/ugd/39a0fd_3ef0150cd2b14b2f9c994439e56f90c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e1318bff-d970-45e2-bcea-45481503a18b.filesusr.com/ugd/75a96d_d8af0c4adeba4926b2d8b6b582be31ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a50dbba5-e4fd-40cc-afa9-a45495a5accf.filesusr.com/ugd/7f929b_ad6673fc61e64e3f904eab4d6bb39e47.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9005a25f-7293-4a73-bb0f-bc58e8c16807.filesusr.com/ugd/e3834b_87c8283d431f4652b90ea4590a718b55.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://80b1f93a-fe74-4439-a81d-34814fa7a505.filesusr.com/ugd/e56fe2_0a1073d485e24d739e5a1c336009f923.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://559ef5b4-38f4-491c-95f5-a6f57f0534fb.filesusr.com/ugd/1b862a_f60e59c52f5943dd950d9dc5ced749d2.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E2 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 882bf62c8768c1e5846329e24f73b106bd3b7ac4b896566a77add6f98d810815
font_01_sfnt_off0000f261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF261 11772 bytes
SHA-256: 14087cadb1ae080af24b5440191ad6bf1f8bb5fb4709041f62f9a9974b7c0a3c
font_02_sfnt_off0001189d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1189D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333