Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 608c5b7bebb88200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-03-29 13:17:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 1b6f07051d73594f72d32f443768d6e5 SHA-1: b856543c6f00164ab199e3dd2a3aa7ae8f71c52f SHA-256: 608c5b7bebb88200eb6b8316626a8ac26b308542b7f6621518f92ce3a4fafec9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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://pelibifir.ru/wix?keyword=coventrycares+of+kentucky+provider+manual+2018 PDF link annotation
    • http://shtangelkipokupkiitd.online/starting_strength_training_mark_rippetoerxc9g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluzhba1.net/who_can_see_your_news_feed_on_facebookqcsu7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413225/normal_6023c78415863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komijeji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606126/9779442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-you.xyz/class_7_english_book_download_ncertzsrh9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404955/normal_5fd8184c143d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459939/normal_5ffea944b9ba5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459794/normal_6020bfcc42116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kikosezuzo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378972/razupebekajewunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369916/normal_60121f35575db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464330/normal_603f91c47b0fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470540/normal_5fdc86d7c1f8e.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/93ba37d9-8fb6-4687-be30-eb412ce21501/josugefibunefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8141e22-6f53-4534-9174-53bdb20cfb8c/python_dictionary_example_geeksforgeeks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juzowilipi/juwomibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jepavilutabilel/zimbabwe_affidavit_form_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lawakux/4014319653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d0a697e-33e8-40a1-a4b0-7b3f4cf052d1/gesovenanoparobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ded680db-1daf-4d9e-9681-efe79b5d73fe/how_to_donate_clothes_to_homeless_london.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fonazuzixagizir/how_to_install_directv_app_on_firestick.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6fb32db-b241-4737-a6fe-6362022d54eb/what_are_the_theories_of_learning_in_educational_psychology.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_off0000f300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF300 5952 bytes
SHA-256: 3db5c0ebfc9f61abdb15ae231dd35e1975c7f804671e033cd32842f279c0c653
font_01_sfnt_off00010746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10746 11864 bytes
SHA-256: e751f8e1ec48a0b198c8f5c9e669bdb92df81f402b682fe866e2fa477eeb336d