Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cff1fc7b5ba5924…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-04-05 22:27:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 1e607dec4b70806b7c25a5601bc02556 SHA-1: 6c551d74d59047edff308d6bf602219eddd7b736 SHA-256: 3cff1fc7b5ba5924cbc1b430e04d4bf3b81bcf300e065c6f988e0860ffcc9877
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on disposable or user-generated content platforms, indicating a link farm. One of the primary URLs is https://pelibifir.ru/wix?keyword=the+avengers+band+facebook, suggesting a potential SEO manipulation or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, but no direct executable scripts were found.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pelibifir.ru/wix?keyword=the+avengers+band+facebook PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/veladaxuzeba/hiijTjt/old_phone_ringtone_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letareximo/f2gf6Kx/18508922131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466154/normal_6030ebc590564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xenivoronizu/didgKe0/40687546313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419828/normal_605f39c52a9ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jekuvobu/bHgdgei/uefa_champions_league_table_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366993/normal_600646d1b8db5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419644/normal_6023c8ad59560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ede36962-9452-4451-b182-fa4236ba9bc6.filesusr.com/ugd/83b1b3_b273120580304c609593f89c5cd1d60d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9b6d407-17f7-4005-9c58-f443b2de1ec5/wood_bar_table_and_chairs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1cdd1dcb-54a5-4750-95ad-c4cce9a68cd1.filesusr.com/ugd/1e32c2_918c0772be6c4fe6b3ab28e4ba3bc23e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_91e0cea5ba0e4d13ad38ecb777d745ed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a52dd608-e7dd-4d50-8005-e0fd7a3896b4.filesusr.com/ugd/43d2fc_bf2c733d1fdb4e92acef60e0aaa425af.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cf4de027-7369-46c2-bf93-d69cabef2b5e.filesusr.com/ugd/868b90_08f58fd559844d25bb137f23f0342a3f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f0ded7c6-1882-44c2-b580-3fd8daacf182.filesusr.com/ugd/1cd4ca_dbae2d8282b141cab6de465c74972c87.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/desenaz/matosemalunobuwegege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanatul/98360831897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fajujiju/epson_xp-400_ink.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fixararololu/15934334345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f579be4a-c2ec-451d-94ee-532237c06880.filesusr.com/ugd/9f6a24_2df33356ab584488b0ffd30e228f6e7c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b53245b0-d96b-4505-833d-5dcf4afda115/52115410861.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_off0000f165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF165 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 1b73676fc5162a4713feb3ad7a11da7534f18679fb5b255785e6bebb049a0470
font_01_sfnt_off000103ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FF 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 54b15867a22de8867ee6544633723e9698065b3cacc4bf8a2b290127e4e9acbb