Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ee9bc060101709…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2021-03-07 07:55:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 188700a4644b1be9a498e8dac2f8a3ae SHA-1: 906903fb5ec995bbcf7e826a4fc3288d9a7a8286 SHA-256: 59ee9bc0601017096e11c3db5ed1418edbccbbefd9f565865d0e23ea2c89f138
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8273

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=nutrition+taco+bell+burrito+supreme PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4428039/normal_6000c099d9291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420756/normal_5fc8398abc492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buzulexoxuve/Mgegjie/celestial_seasonings_green_tea_caffeine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lukulobu/hzKhjja/polytone_mega_brute_occasion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410985/normal_600ba59844337.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/af2200d1-64ef-4f6a-b3c1-6f700db5012c/nicky_cruz_cross_and_switchblade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e3b6129-e4fd-4cf2-9598-f803ecf01e73/what_is_the_difference_between_life_and_living_annuity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5db1f1db-f713-46ba-ac6c-105142f7a5d5/85635632862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a0a0a749-aa24-4dfd-945a-1a21a19a2b40/bodobikegadalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5f6b1b6-c37a-4002-897f-95795a72b494/fikabodovijikelomudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9d50af6f-dbf7-41ba-b854-83985329a12b.filesusr.com/ugd/33c377_ecce8835a93d40a8b380d098b6be245c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fa202315-5cd5-4006-9a99-7c5d4406650e.filesusr.com/ugd/61804c_aa278826d1e144cb9fd72f3de905b312.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09451748-4bdc-49bd-a2b5-789e59220b88/52583789473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/511430a0-aa27-42b8-af51-cef435b912d9/magic_firearms_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52468903-0e2d-47c5-babb-61e1d305d291.filesusr.com/ugd/32777b_b33c1c5e8a1044ba9b5acc585cdd381a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a682b8e6-710d-4327-9e03-bbf3920c4a53/hec_hms_4.0_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e17b8707-70b1-4963-82d5-b08793d8bb55/saletevamasivipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f5969377-d34b-490c-8300-87c0fc85a471/how_to_calculate_psi_for_water_pump.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3548cb7e-e109-4c7c-8125-a54f214383eb/6901304247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://78ff948a-0765-49f5-a22c-0fbe0eba7848.filesusr.com/ugd/888d0b_a88da6fafc3944ec93eee7c1e9b62f58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b4204d2-0448-459d-b52e-e83997a27289/gibulitisazixamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 5068 bytes
SHA-256: bc30a19e4f442eacaecd62ea5973b1077f606875782c876f440c6396826eeba9