Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b9b824529d9de54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-01 07:40:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bc5afeb42a00a949b8f4cb4b9ce9696c SHA-1: e14731618b3711e774361a6bfd3bcc3eaa3d5248 SHA-256: 5b9b824529d9de547d4253c4a5962183154b5063286f99ad8e249969dcbcc481
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'invoice' and 'payment', aligning with the SE_INVOICE_LURE heuristic. The presence of embedded JavaScript, indicated by the T1059.007 technique, suggests the potential for further malicious actions such as downloading a second-stage payload.

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 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=aurora+living+quarters+codes PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426686/normal_606877ba6d47f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4498324/normal_60b1cd8c1f8bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444885/normal_606495de14019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366005/normal_602da87d14065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410214/normal_605530bca053e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450438/normal_600283ca54293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454691/normal_603456284887b.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c6f7299-9eab-4e57-90ce-bbe827da1e3e/vaxurofebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bofamawetodo.pbworks.com/f/diwilejizafalazitetobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekivuxuga.pbworks.com/f/evaluating_numerical_expressions_with_exponents_worksheets_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/223d6448-808e-4bcc-a951-b114c35b8d6f/chess_puzzle_11_solution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4cfdd463-bc93-45e0-877e-84d0f253c34f/who_wrote_the_quran_first.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d46abc93-31cf-4f45-ac2a-52fba6c8af16/29749113995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibumezi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144438297/guxiluxipixuropefaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorunezagu.pbworks.com/f/tik_tok_auto_followers_apk_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/34792cf4-ad7e-4403-a1b9-b0bcb693079d/3877247795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japomajuxire.pbworks.com/f/nevumasivope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mapijakemifo.pbworks.com/f/nurojenelifoverimofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8324c9db-7f39-49b2-8d16-c54c12a91c89/77616241804.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_off00010a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A61 5164 bytes
SHA-256: f485a94ae873a08865a96f023ee838204a6455e2e9423d52313703671e64daea
font_01_sfnt_off00011bf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF8 12040 bytes
SHA-256: 60edd9127d0ee8d3b7fe486f3f8ece28a38920b51335f75ddbef00e2a9e635c1
font_02_sfnt_off000144bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144BD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3