Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bf8e6ceff6815f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-03-22 18:46:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 04f350ef8b981f6f079d3a01197419ae SHA-1: 662c0529eaab37acf19b2bf5071df5684cf6a49f SHA-256: 2bf8e6ceff6815f4aad4c4ddc2f16c96ee3d47e4ccd844d28ab522abbb646d1b
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://jacksth.ru/aws?utm_term=is+khan+academy+sat+math+good PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368485/normal_5fd15520888fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fiwujumejuf/hdidhbf/49203929558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448539/normal_600c65ae7d2a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409610/normal_5fdc1c7624dde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pifixijowoka/44zjbkP/motagekugepepodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380068/normal_604f0c217b67a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/keragipiki/exvjgc9/46224859619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ba428ff1-d53d-4eb5-bdb2-cc960067f420.filesusr.com/ugd/7041e4_e42522a93ae6498a8e1d23b36d9da77a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://feedbc21-cb93-402c-9ae2-3476589645d2.filesusr.com/ugd/f3ecbe_0440e87a047346249953cc53446c86af.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e2557db-f6a7-4259-81d4-6bbf063279e2/98742030671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://893c8be9-d140-4a04-8a3e-66bd54b472cd.filesusr.com/ugd/efd7ea_561aec125f254c4a8a74a7b82644f574.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9d349da1-218b-4b59-9e37-2a90cab56d40.filesusr.com/ugd/de9003_ab737ea18a764348bc6551fb0caf4891.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aeee6d33-c710-4907-a028-b1b32837f260/fisubumuzidevudotexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c245485c-e1a4-4c5a-9a2a-c465a95e53c8.filesusr.com/ugd/25f824_b414d6db31a9467d9bc00a33aebaa2f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b3b59bc-e1d4-4ee2-81a7-b60bd870ef75/wu_lun_chinese_grammar_structure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://be1d055c-b83b-422e-9e68-1bf13cef350c.filesusr.com/ugd/5b1e3c_5e95db16af884ddeae9abf8c32a458c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e85625e8-91d5-48c2-95a4-67b7b95d5b39.filesusr.com/ugd/b97a97_ba162e66fc1646b08015669b32a811ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9049409e-dcbb-43fe-b7cb-0f7a5d042cf1.filesusr.com/ugd/e59eee_7d203e6a59e6453f88b3d13b8b554987.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://592908bf-dd96-48cc-88d9-ffebbdd10d84.filesusr.com/ugd/f34823_69c17a1a5c294f968ca6d3b593b30c58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://521a9f5b-5c7e-4f25-a9e4-5446fb1b1975.filesusr.com/ugd/c1a494_27f6f9fac31e4ab6b3ffae0b0e84fe02.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://34886cf3-15ed-44db-93e8-8979dc7c4cd7.filesusr.com/ugd/ea2c45_d7eb9b04abf0449b83d2027637d7c883.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e082cb0d-9c22-4a21-acb7-e2c6127a51d3.filesusr.com/ugd/ff0c06_1800d47f1ac24b1ebe9561f36351dbcf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7ae52be2-ba3c-41fb-8935-29281088223e.filesusr.com/ugd/affaa6_78eb0c7c5acc49919def0f7048f14a4e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4b4ea461-5266-411b-8735-d5290551f550.filesusr.com/ugd/7fedcf_01f4b3de84614710ac7067eeebd42613.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C9 5328 bytes
SHA-256: a69e8f6e076751721732e540905321b031139a78fcb3bf7cffc6cad32483e047
font_01_sfnt_off00011ad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD1 10992 bytes
SHA-256: ac8dee3b7cb253f1561fa670e81468bdf75df5a672a2cacaf33165ecd13bc13b