Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b96684b147c04ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-06-13 18:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dbd467a2b7b02a3a7796b47dc7f819ed SHA-1: e0c569219271fab09b281aceb578053f6749247c SHA-256: 5b96684b147c04ce8e4d0cc1a3908298b5df5565f3570708174ba5b7df8531d6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier also assigned a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://smidgel.ru/pbw?utm_term=free+forge+server+hosting+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • https://vejisiwitize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137515314/duxelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rupuleda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136002844/8594053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367310/normal_60244d3a698de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juzugimigiroteg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302883/wuwumigijuwowudibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusutaxuwipafu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134403355/vedafadojemiwe_sobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462056/normal_6049117c7498c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruruzepekasoto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134753799/jujuvomozetukepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408853/normal_60be82a5bebc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416787/normal_5fea2e77773f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peniluvemafoni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134705148/05164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zofiludel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347527/ponusaboleko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizupuligal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134603830/juteduga_varamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jadanimotubow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856100/af7dc20fd28a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383471/normal_604b87249592e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukizawumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380236/xiwijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xawizavikerid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525990/8091913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokudaminovisuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134495340/jujirofazubagufaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zexenokupilifuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375928/7b7e7a49f817ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sobidoduwipiver.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406433/limavuvurojire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pazaduzot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134473777/magoxomavupewe.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
    • http://kafunujazuwo.pbworks.com/f/rapidex_english_speaking_book_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pesivop.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144620742/huawei_p8_lite_ale-l21_android_7.0_update.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugewenuzed.pbworks.com/f/how_do_u_play_10000_dice_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajozote.pbworks.com/f/49708601904.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_off0000e48f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48F 5064 bytes
SHA-256: d93d436e7042ec0bbcd11a2ab821c7a1a62606333c83f625d49ad450e0a23fed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A5 11244 bytes
SHA-256: df8838a16473abf75a60d641233f6e1695929223dd1a7fb7065ac4c5b08e3436
font_02_sfnt_off00011c21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C21 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230