Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ebc35b13fabcbe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-03-21 06:30:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: 28f6014dd23ad374028a0728d513c1af SHA-1: 2574e34c9fb11533d16a4517428bb15299acad3a SHA-256: 3ebc35b13fabcbe6e415d62167bb9ce6be9fda7bd52b9040f403753fb7e27c84
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 hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body's obfuscated text and the presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=missing+required+dependencies+%2527numpy%2527+power+bi PDF link annotation
    • http://xopasiwaxenoj.iblogger.org/50381772660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365662/normal_5ff46ffd8cc7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezibaxuxemabu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453555/velun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotolisode.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616401/pijekaziwidajikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ravusigi/5UwjjgS/divemudorufekadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466140/normal_6024044b1e849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419828/normal_60567104247cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4505363/normal_5fca34e118db1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jozojijejip/Sltjgig/jizenirexulidatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488103/normal_604b7e78a8a71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vekerarefatada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868636/5131908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vopunokapire/ggamwgf/656570445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6200e599-3f2f-4e3e-ab45-e6977ed7e777.filesusr.com/ugd/f8de3e_1190ef80beb54a53adf0a1683fd27f62.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f730d15c-1921-46d2-b6d4-288333e40990.filesusr.com/ugd/e2c223_b665930dfa0f4089a53ba8709c16f9f5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://poxotoromerolu.rf.gd/sogajufimujuzofafebido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuguvoxoki/80565689333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d6aab468-caab-4d9e-910f-d3bf64ae4104.filesusr.com/ugd/5438e3_9a4483fd13e944b5bb166264cf3ece3e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xalasawu/vaxamewajurugodito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a49aa754-465e-4bbd-924e-b3d0e7b66bd4.filesusr.com/ugd/81d6a4_ea3b0d80318b4b64a394b60706fc248d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dokubuxopid.rf.gd/world_history_book_norman_lowe_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7e6b698e-d56f-4a21-8c48-787e2f6d39f4.filesusr.com/ugd/7836c9_56f960e29f3547fa986b084dfabd49f4.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_off00010d0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0E 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 21eff342c1bd1e53bd698efa1af4177ed8fd37dce22b10e34d93a3b7f92ccd04
font_01_sfnt_off0001204e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204E 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 43899a1346b571ee0faebdcb349d655892b0c4819d58f62020910400745b316b