Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fde88a97fb645ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 13:14:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c1fb24431e18d74466fdb564bb027793 SHA-1: c81f86ae0cb84b153e1382ca19a3deb5cf7081a0 SHA-256: 5fde88a97fb645eea1ff74ceafcd625488cfddf89527b34b89e2e966e9fe70fa
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The primary URL, 'https://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=al+arabiyyah+bayna+yadayk+new+edition+pdf', appears to be a lure for a specific book title. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://oniceh.ru/pbw?utm_term=al+arabiyyah+bayna+yadayk+new+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://weziriditovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108838/4147969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixifumalig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437092/6627572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458144/normal_601a6988ba696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367903/normal_606998d6496ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474218/normal_6047a586f12cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375889/normal_5fe0895f4f9fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawonuvanez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136021807/8828206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373782/normal_6032395b1943f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ramaxudefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042793/e048e97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469631/normal_5fe63a404011f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385410/normal_6016fdaa74dd6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448539/normal_605aa33a9e163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392868/normal_6067c4803cf7d.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/a9b390b2-f130-4b12-86fe-8a0d2002d5bb/forged_by_fire_summary_chapter_19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zegugas.pbworks.com/f/fegerikajirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/286dc283-4729-4f60-a31e-7b616ad432d5/is_it_ok_to_drink_chrysanthemum_tea_everyday.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17921c8f-c83a-4dc8-8b0c-e7a23ec68b3f/musical_frogs_ocarina_of_time_3ds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27a65bb7-1652-400d-96bb-ca4e80b9b43e/what_are_all_the_warrior_cats_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolowajuwijo.pbworks.com/f/is_toshiba_ct-rc1us-18_a_smart_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4e6888d-e49e-4339-ada7-5e48f4494ac6/jokaxodunikuronipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dcb14552-e11f-40a1-a4b7-8e2460a7e5ff/are_pops_being_banned.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_off0000ef01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF01 5336 bytes
SHA-256: e9a1fe74d72f7dbfc0460f79a79b53aef099ffbd2fe7e7f3f9ef8c0a0d0b0965
font_01_sfnt_off00010138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10138 10800 bytes
SHA-256: daee7d28d2fc8a3fd02c354bacc1bd27edf30027babec352b76eb29cfec67ca3
font_02_sfnt_off00012684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12684 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 149d8c33ec4eb880ae55e24eeffac33be699b30af3fce03ce17428e6e66aed52