Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52f5e668d0bb7f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 04:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c35ca315f38a4f6a4217fe3b8fe31a27 SHA-1: 3e82733a668433f114749f173446c5214b702ab4 SHA-256: 52f5e668d0bb7f8749173fa6907384bd860014e01c026d9dcf7af073fc7da01a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The primary URL, 'https://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=the+basics+of+american+politics+15th+edition+pdf+free+download', suggests a lure for free content, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=the+basics+of+american+politics+15th+edition+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447669/normal_604a767991600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501659/normal_5fe97dca1b3b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454303/normal_5fdde00ff35c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385869/normal_5fc9c8ef2247a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4372707/normal_5ff353762439a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471514/normal_601d0089e1252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387419/normal_605941b823fa1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389793/normal_601df52dde5c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374839/normal_601f243766ef0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://45f91bdd-2b68-4e60-ae2c-b14373ae5332.filesusr.com/ugd/0d089b_acdcef61da764de9b2c896890d18f589.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6ba8113a-99dc-4618-97bf-d7180f10ff72.filesusr.com/ugd/b6edda_8615158adadc41bfab5fa92c33d89a19.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e7e1611e-f78d-4dfd-b5ce-3be5f579732f.filesusr.com/ugd/4b76a6_22adbda988564042901913ae3be13ba7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6927b378-a40f-46d3-8dc4-3436e94e46e3/10-3_area_of_regular_polygons_worksheet_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/881f084d-1064-4976-a8aa-ad57364f2f57/unlimited_power_of_attorney_form_texas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1628136f-0ebf-4833-be18-842cf5d41bb3/how_best_to_trade_cryptocurrency.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://89511c73-251b-4bee-a1a5-5f4bd4863124.filesusr.com/ugd/f24cb8_8969df44c2da4576933bef27c55ce49f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c8301d3-3cf6-4248-9f53-5df64104a67a/nasb_bible_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://369206df-e466-4f8f-9771-850d1edb33c5.filesusr.com/ugd/8fd5dc_aa09a8aebb974b358ca5de9b81645602.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cceb078e-1df6-42b0-9e12-359f30e42f1d.filesusr.com/ugd/e8506d_f2386e1301e34dde9617231a20a29c0f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85756048-f525-4871-83be-a1f7a53c2945/mijigapupakorogofeburozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b706903d-f531-4522-bf23-c1798491fa3d/20153639122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/53b3c326-8d24-48b1-a042-7a21974e9508/guess_how_much_i_love_you_quilted_fabric_uk.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_off0001058d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058D 5752 bytes
SHA-256: f1559d6364e5f916962572c9621b4bda02752dee0a46ba7834498fd8f62f1d74
font_01_sfnt_off00011903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11903 11812 bytes
SHA-256: f07c255fbfce36ccf2dab48aee9be33f83cbdf8d447c05cd36914b30f6f8415e