Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b86efeef9847d2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-02-16 01:53:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 23518bd7bb3e5467e88be111cce5a257 SHA-1: e41f5ecece4c7d9013f27ea3dbe00acaf15d2951 SHA-256: 5b86efeef9847d2d1e9a298b725ee40e969e9deebd136389d2db56fda9db3cf7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains and link farm services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://bologen.ru/wb?keyword=dyson%20small%20ball%20multi%20floor%20upright%20vacuum%20cleaner%20reviews PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pijovowifil/ZjdDide/niposuzowuragalozexefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewizafisebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437566/14c792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jevipugirofi/gWhgidg/medepapomazuruzuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wevinavuligi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134505150/1316780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulixebuvalafin.iblogger.org/mazukapelibiwofuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radefikifuru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723330/8359040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kagumuzom/dKgrU2z/soccer_mobile_2019_ultimate_football_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebuxikaxaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668288/nubupekewisabofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipakinujudisil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134468351/4366736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuriretijidaja.22web.org/zajetukuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakumijajuxos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134465568/5162417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gojudewusidaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134888042/kijivik_rirewitivedisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://telomilabevi.epizy.com/jotafowatudusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakosaf.rf.gd/83960413497.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_off0000cfdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDB 5824 bytes
SHA-256: b4ef56a13e94177e3b7c65060d3e9cc5ade49854957f14c113c90a47f3a15f0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A0 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 52e3668efd50bd77d2e97226b369e568825120e62c6e1032a3f42c3662fe3ee4