Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d89495b23adfaa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-03-27 21:03:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c7eb366377a999d9ffe2f3c60b0fb15b SHA-1: bd8e9f66aec68a5461956528d23f26d1f4a8c92c SHA-256: 3d89495b23adfaa11821c3eadbf09f71743e710470189dbdc9a9c33fb713339f
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one prominent URL, 'https://baarspo.ru/123?utm_term=archive+of+our+own', flagged as suspicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the PDF is part of a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious purpose. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall detection profile points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://baarspo.ru/123?utm_term=archive+of+our+own PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wiwibibowow/eQrhhji/zelenaselewasidefanapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465128/normal_6010a7254d190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somubuzesixuwun.getenjoyment.net/73285767734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476142/normal_604d112defa77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gijipodotetojo.22web.org/61569672214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirubapifegira.22web.org/3d_car_model_with_texture_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/divoxisig/gcjb3Ku/chime_mobile_banking_stock.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dutudovajud/iibMXjh/adt_pulse_alexa_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4390329/normal_5fe3c96485856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirenaxapibetig.scienceontheweb.net/blessed_assurance_elevation_worship_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duwinijuj.mypressonline.com/steroid_injection_in_knee_painful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jidobimatu/eHKhg7g/26431719450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405194/normal_60140971db10a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nevupediwix/jageIjf/sound_effects_app_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365580/normal_6021d0c49ce9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7dc1abe-7a9e-439e-9a1b-6853f39d438e/prentice_hall_world_history_connections_to_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/693e4933-1d49-4695-b5ec-dac59f996098/wahl_magic_clip_cordless_clipper_black_gold_limited_edition_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://butukiri.epizy.com/jabojunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a994e9a3-a3e8-40fc-8485-a34d19beb763/57597188186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e05f3136-3fb0-4915-9b7c-fd02d5cb85fd/what_is_the_salary_of_aircraft_maintenance_engineer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gofirog.epizy.com/niwuguwezajuwimonulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibagog.onlinewebshop.net/96947674804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc08e457-3b78-4c41-a538-556386e7d54f/mysterious_benedict_society_disney_plus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jazosorolanik.rf.gd/neloborisigifugov.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_off0000e8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C4 4692 bytes
SHA-256: d83119997e02d6d7c98eefc9cbd235eacad2e8270bc1c37fb69e01504af7f028
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CF 11584 bytes
SHA-256: f0b8fb06e88b314b4af0947d19d9a5c89c60e1fad974766cf4b3e58471b2204e