Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 593bf8c39e1dcada…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-05-30 03:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1d41705f261972f05aa4edd40f0d808f SHA-1: c39e752a111e173bd769a4af38c725f23e93c9dd SHA-256: 593bf8c39e1dcadab4829c6078d75c2c722857fded3fcd63d1b071be181b8555
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, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common technique of using documents to host or link to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=mit+erfolg+zum+goethe-zertifikat+a1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lifefazat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134742259/paxelepegoj_jajoxidese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babotiditufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694550/kogexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485800/normal_5fe7b566e697c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gatojodegapov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637656/001919c66f398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369922/normal_5ffc1377608ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gixosakovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677645/fovosomujivegapulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedadiwetatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137504668/suzuf_zemiduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimonasisu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400987/3760655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fewirikikekaja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302896/nunubuxugoroxanumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406473/normal_606a906219abb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385216/normal_5ff782e4ce8e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471234/normal_6014cf4a99062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454425/normal_6067dbc0438b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawikavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814462/e8c1f9e62694f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotinodonana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134692009/785d67e511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e1af5b4-af0f-41a6-a031-073150bc4970/52666070144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a122988-2c36-41db-915a-7343176b0555/1792482273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0add4d2-902e-4425-a236-75c33f3d288b/wapobikagapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c7873cd-c8e2-4575-ad86-a3ded04735e3/do_you_write_dad_with_a_capital_d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/350d3b44-afa1-4300-b756-95b12246cabf/42028933276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8789c5c-4ee6-4f68-9f79-09126986bc5a/te_mueves_tu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f0ebd53-a131-436b-8cdb-6fa8181b2cb0/pre_algebra_for_dummies_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2101c448-f46a-4061-a81e-fea4d5b36cb6/cisco_catalyst_2950_power_specifications.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C7 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 4a69eb7fb4d9271ab558b820409f967c75d380a5670c3bee7d70688a1c087c4c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCA 12948 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa694f2b79d2ffa3394f348ec7f43fb0954c60d8371b6333aa20cbf46681297
font_02_sfnt_off00012440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12440 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361