Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59bde15edc04e057…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-04-01 05:33:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6b4e619cba0744b6bbce40d104717631 SHA-1: 153dcbc79a20bf871a33d5e5a4622d5565c30037 SHA-256: 59bde15edc04e057b69d4b85b3542e26882b0ec371c5e9ac946f892642598bee
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary URL, 'https://gimoguvi.ru/wix?keyword=world+history+b+cp+unit+6+test+answers', is presented as a search result, likely to trick users into clicking through to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of malicious intent.

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://gimoguvi.ru/wix?keyword=world+history+b+cp+unit+6+test+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501385/normal_5ffc9a32e6c97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454547/normal_5ff2f2439fac4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369486/normal_6058a1264eeac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408862/normal_5ffea52579993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xaloridinef/gdZhfMs/crime_scene_investigation_report_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475854/normal_603526002a6c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/difixoruze/Tiboic7/3126126027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459774/normal_5fe4992fe20d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vavefamixivi/jigjzUJ/najaliwedini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413456/normal_5ffbf2c975ba8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fopalixogul/mztgdja/43578653367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/safubuguva/ghfGgii/72825634822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mx50off.info/lundy_bancroft_why_does_he_do_that_reviewz645j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nesuxozajek/ekhhu3Y/weather_underground_zigzag_oregon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/figakeves/1PhegdC/star_falls_season_1_episode_20_dailymotion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bipufawawi/beigijs/best_offline_world_atlas_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xefanujere/pT460hi/mejumaxorozopojoneguful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-albero.ru/fmovies_to_mp4_er22byr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477379/normal_601ef389416be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383561/normal_6034819f231b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449602/normal_6005d3a0276cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d70b1dc8-7d09-4148-9854-e6a7cae1b87b.filesusr.com/ugd/5899d5_2fe87de1363b4de4a4981759ad85d8f1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3a5aa097-47f9-475f-9992-83bceef25cc3.filesusr.com/ugd/f55bec_44d54165afb7481dbcab90ced39c1c8e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7605c768-a471-4169-85a9-0dab509fd250.filesusr.com/ugd/20ab23_59b7c565c5b4488387519ee655d890c9.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_off0000d5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CA 5664 bytes
SHA-256: de727f165313720b86923dc503f6139f0489698a67da8e672418ea008817b837
font_01_sfnt_off0000e91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91F 10556 bytes
SHA-256: ab828dedf634d0c3a3910e7852f41a93cb10fa18728bc14b0d17087d96d4e2eb