Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 450e01c5332cbdbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-02-21 10:40:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 04fd389dc7f807ed7ea55cceb78d9fd9 SHA-1: ba6190ecd89482e72580d9839101224348f402b6 SHA-256: 450e01c5332cbdbc96d1c33a0d4725d2e33d52f5b3e3199d3de23879fbeaac4f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The primary URL, 'https://baarspo.ru/wb?keyword=what%20does%20gracias%20yo%20tambien%20te%20amo%20mean', is likely part of a phishing lure or a method to drive traffic to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing document.

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://baarspo.ru/wb?keyword=what%20does%20gracias%20yo%20tambien%20te%20amo%20mean PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478968/normal_5ff26e78727d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408324/normal_602d04fe1f987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenufipafalenar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616414/nuvukowuwigavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zukixemafeka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398149/6049732746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fofulusi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134774969/lafuwini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobaletakalesig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302751/gozawudedarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanogerigan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134657300/mivisoben-tujalojobizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wexabegolorumad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351445/mumasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zudasejavezumuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017640/c0360b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416810/normal_5fe76a1d65dc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368962/normal_602d2f66ce8bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewimoranekodov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969375/1646563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zexotanus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873712/6118319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kavekoda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326791/moxibokogavosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jegagevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109204/7457057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388037/normal_6026683d116bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428035/normal_5fe7690b8b89e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gekavitominugi.epizy.com/brother_dcp_l2540dw_scanner_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derijumofode.rf.gd/2010_chevrolet_malibu_problems.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D2 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 61e32cb7bcda9bc56fa59784d86e847a2eb0255edad3a5ccfb73a25936086556
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A9 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 61a1e3bdf06be385ae376717b5ecac4e5917a819a6c98d421cf64dac89de0c58
font_02_sfnt_off0001154b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154B 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 35a1c99dda7b719a820cc18a2c1ed5a32000971a7f5cfaf9b89498dc42e050bc
font_03_sfnt_off00013bde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BDE 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 529e02908c3681f19c75b0cb7b3530bf546a82e997154b83732af575d4fecc0f