Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2efb160416edd0cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-08 00:23:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f87851250b209ce573387e6960352545 SHA-1: eedb22d0f18accd4b9175e3beb430b2d4b3715ee SHA-256: 2efb160416edd0cfdbf708d5148c50dec5f4e3ebd462592f806b4b98bb240345
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 pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm. The primary URL, 'https://pistant.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+the+syllabus+of+bsc+computer+science', suggests a potential SEO manipulation or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and extensive link farm are strong indicators of malicious intent, likely to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pistant.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+the+syllabus+of+bsc+computer+science PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382201/normal_6033282677486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dekupepevimozis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738652/1c4f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424378/normal_6019ca3472e5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvakikarubefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383404/gulora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378149/normal_600b7204464b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421039/normal_5fdad38dc3875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386828/normal_5fe3a6f104129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419225/normal_5ffb2e2ce9cae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379626/normal_5fd2e0337c43a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498324/normal_5fdbbf8b205d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387408/normal_5ffd2b596d918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384039/normal_5fd2513bf09d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426059/normal_60404f8cb7dc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424036/normal_5fed144ca6392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418747/normal_5ff2572accfea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501998/normal_603548b5781b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jipukikibowema.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633032/ebdb717ada5aa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455876/normal_6044f829f156d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384832/normal_600d1cea7d342.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
    • http://bowawesup.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144819918/97012301463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rawumadakora.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144538203/85524198934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malamojozag.pbworks.com/f/the_japanese_skincare_revolution_english_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balejuw.pbworks.com/f/vuvexasoxejajop.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_off0000e4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E1 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 91961ea4633d40e5b7b4b1065a62e444f67cdbf9e9a2cf93b6cc21651ad1ed49
font_01_sfnt_off0000f718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF718 10644 bytes
SHA-256: cf9da48be0b225df9ea7e4aa5d29cac66fc112e4deb8a946562cc070bed17aaf
font_02_sfnt_off00011b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B54 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230