Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e8bb02f5cc1d2c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-03-09 10:50:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 876b94daa9a518fb1dfb88ab8a1824ee SHA-1: 0de89232e2255bc8f010ced685eed26d273d38d9 SHA-256: 2e8bb02f5cc1d2c01a002f3080fcf616b86db2a57e86de4dce8739020f30cd96
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary malicious URL, https://soxebez.ru/strik, is likely used to redirect users to a phishing or malware-hosting site. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, and the PDF structure with embedded links aligns with techniques used for initial access via spearphishing.

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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+connect+my+iphone+to+my+canon+mg4250+printer PDF link annotation
    • http://xatovapotogu.mywebcommunity.org/binumigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushbiz.fun/xatetozalaluxotagigixuerwoe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuvisisitinu/rnnAihi/wudavopafonofesomudope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydra.moscow/batman_the_dark_knight_movie_tamilkfea6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xixofivib/9ijbha4/how_to_bake_a_potato_on_the_grill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rorezina/cbihjzk/kagavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wujozuzewed/mihgcUZ/ruwatuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myyshooop227.site/glencoe_physics_principles_and_problztme1.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e7665d1-84c2-4952-9109-d2ab971358c2/woferajuwijironele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d497f082-4895-42de-a72c-038d9367c8a3.filesusr.com/ugd/8e727b_ba81f94f5b6e42258654047f39789155.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4690dde6-8419-4904-9377-a2d69149f242/economic_nationalism_in_india_during_british_rule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4929276b-c341-4d1e-9dcc-577e4a533614/should_i_read_the_100_book_series.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a12a05ab-6462-4855-b086-b0a2a961d6d8.filesusr.com/ugd/2c76f4_43ff6338e37142399b9eff5ceb072bb2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e8f98835-b194-42a5-b43f-fe2f29920dd6.filesusr.com/ugd/bf650e_ec6e3f1675d444f694b4f140a49da50c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/151b4de5-f5d8-428b-bc80-93b8960d7dcb/74480027074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niwurekatexo.atwebpages.com/85675319786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88068efd-9c4b-4810-8eea-f75b5a0527ef/47382160515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2a960d0-6326-41a2-83ad-301afa74278d/nix_8_inch_hd_digital_photo_frame_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2755149e-2f1a-49a5-9eb8-01c7ed785ca1/16938753938.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF5 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 01e595459794185cf5b83fa9b0e6e066d8126d596df6c271388eb69120396f01
font_01_sfnt_off0000f147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF147 10572 bytes
SHA-256: f1404971cfd5fc300eb8cafd7fe3a59733fbdf19284a04f71ded7bf6282462a8
font_02_sfnt_off0001152c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e