Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b31a37e81bbb5fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.7 KB Created: 2021-03-22 09:00:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: be9f5d038426664cde3f4b3f6d774c87 SHA-1: 4cc6dfa996687889b5fdfd70484056e6d099e501 SHA-256: 5b31a37e81bbb5fbe8f6a748acb83feedcd291720db887fde109ef96c6d0357e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://xezojetit.ru/award?keyword=cebit+2020+aussteller+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447885/normal_6016c9387a224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4406809/normal_60078fa9e1508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482415/normal_600524b815ea9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495694/normal_6030765e97c2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374374/normal_5ff66a7fce0e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452850/normal_604cf3c93e0c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381321/normal_601b2a35b0870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bokakemipik.epizy.com/83474109558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://21e323bd-7fdd-46e9-a6c7-4880e76d7610.filesusr.com/ugd/0a51c1_def627a5090c48f6bd55e3de29e51659.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cd9ed9ec-87d1-42be-9198-0b2de6c1db4d.filesusr.com/ugd/158fb9_c7ab624d1fd64640b1555bd6f2d94ed1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://72a23b54-95c1-47c0-80d6-f7b1310faeb8.filesusr.com/ugd/65b209_6e912752a1864e908bccf655f4b7bc5e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be9c8297-50e9-4ec8-be22-7cc4068ef96a.filesusr.com/ugd/fc3b0b_209777d1f3cb4c76aa8e704f7c677946.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb6d8354-940b-4e05-9f1d-0150973ab277.filesusr.com/ugd/882da0_d955a0c75e7347a7966e63684db04ef2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fobupozomorefiw.epizy.com/akb48_heavy_rotation_music_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d5bea983-5bca-41ba-aae6-6b688785cc77.filesusr.com/ugd/9ec29b_cb4909f9848447dc892fd8209f5f20ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6632aaff-1fe9-4f1d-acb3-7d444e457837.filesusr.com/ugd/ce4b7c_133ec6ce59e848e1aaa93f57fa0d43d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3e1ae61b-6b68-46dc-8a90-d1c7a5b9f91c.filesusr.com/ugd/b8bbd7_09da90adbe4041f883c4bbeac8bfa1b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://merowijesajov.epizy.com/48979076860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5fa60de5-32ab-41ac-ba65-77330e21e623.filesusr.com/ugd/2e16aa_89aa007946f04474a14c83fa554d0aec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://guvivel.rf.gd/machiavellianism_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://584abdf6-e408-48d3-a53c-4313a8f82471.filesusr.com/ugd/18ee90_6cbf52e9a9574805aff138e275d6d94d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nadinuvuxogi.epizy.com/40073323365.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016f6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F6E 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 13cfc9662bae4418ca5f3038185e48a7a82724050e6f9d39dec462c01291bf49
font_01_sfnt_off000181a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181A0 14552 bytes
SHA-256: b6e5f53ac6dc9790532346358a9f629667277167b6a4cb7fe52cdb1688e4bdb4
font_02_sfnt_off0001b042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B042 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 173e74cb656ce8cf62e9dba6189377201a248cf59bd5f118deeb5932e9a17b3a