Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 551942d63fed61ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-04-08 05:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dd11c8de11067578120fcb2892170e0b SHA-1: c4fcac7ee35e412ce667b901d68edb6a601e76d1 SHA-256: 551942d63fed61eee4d13ea030521de9be411ba850726130206365dc2e74605b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a lure for users to click a download button, which is a common social engineering tactic to trick users into installing malicious software or extensions. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, including one pointing to 'xajibur.ru', suggests a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xajibur.ru/123?utm_term=articulate+storyline+2++free PDF link annotation
    • http://saxosoxajivovud.medianewsonline.com/beam_bending_formulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxadiweruxu.22web.org/selected_homme_trousers_size_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462073/normal_6012ce57440cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegejoruvufiron.sportsontheweb.net/pugekivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471509/normal_605df29357478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penafur.scienceontheweb.net/neet_answer_sheet_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446765/normal_60565622a374e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408704/normal_6068b6ab8a22d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386848/normal_6038fabe5a20d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498678/normal_602dd40b9eb3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486742/normal_60615e28c1d45.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/4294bd28-735d-46f2-813b-ddce80f4f801/vunubakakuzitabile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb4c470c-922e-4677-8e0e-923362201022/simple_english_proverbs_with_tamil_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a38098d-26c8-4844-ab0b-2dfc398d7f8d.filesusr.com/ugd/fffd55_11f55ad920564c84a0c0f746c8efc985.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52431b39-7396-4b0c-bcaf-ab72d449a1bf.filesusr.com/ugd/f8cef3_53aaeb3db6d24c6f8a3e3594662f0fba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rovuwuruw.epizy.com/33566884948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ae8c1479-5121-4009-b0ed-8259dbb1205b.filesusr.com/ugd/0aff45_ed61c273933840e6aa2b3b2e270672b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://79ab8074-8148-4faa-9219-f6cdfa35bc15.filesusr.com/ugd/99e004_a7d22c0c29c74021abd5d68f453f97ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44a91250-8caa-4cc3-abd5-db3dafe34534/how_to_start_up_a_central_boiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a645a843-ed33-41d6-9fa9-defd69dc5026/julesowufinigizadoditur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevafimavot.epizy.com/87186286952.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_off000117ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CE 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 19f8759262dd97ac8798e3ebd23bc14e13f88715bce104867444703856edcadb
font_01_sfnt_off0001293f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293F 11652 bytes
SHA-256: 11372c283c8622c62802585a734337afa3e0bddc8987a8184c0a621d4c7a1bdb