Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60c316cbc97e33fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-03-18 21:10:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 412aac1b8fc23bc153cc29960bc7c79f SHA-1: 91990af14036ecbc1a4c18cbb5deeacb5d9cd0a7 SHA-256: 60c316cbc97e33fdd06768ed7da24c63d7d9a858371d55b2202395219e09dba3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is classified as malicious due to its structure, which contains a large number of external links designed to farm SEO traffic. The primary URL, 'https://xajibur.ru/award?keyword=anatomy+and+physiology+for+nurses+free+pdf', suggests a lure for users searching for specific content. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF's design points towards a phishing or link-farming scheme.

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://xajibur.ru/award?keyword=anatomy+and+physiology+for+nurses+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/birenejar/gggcjdO/31136877509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wixotavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764887/zukevamurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vamekatowozi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814347/3901141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisukebisogovi.22web.org/where_do_spotify_songs_to_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wetogukonitama.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997956/bffe1f92e47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kasuvapexal/ngchcgi/sodabikiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/livefivepa/egghcEo/45270327202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/benibavagoge/duUNgh3/ver_fox_sports_mexico_en_vivo_online_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/junuxuseg/idCghkU/physiology_of_transplanted_heart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wojawodexof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134673733/ropivifakaduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifipumajetug.22web.org/buzavapisipomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxizeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999163/boferilupupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jegivobepumo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444156/3cfd30b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wimiwupo/diiFihc/modern_white_tripod_table_lamp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedaruxije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134455514/ee4bb0d616fbc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/badaxiloru/hcJGhgl/domino_pizza_delivery_car.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobirejajatit.iblogger.org/mera_bhola_bhandari_ringtone_karen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vudulami.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135964857/1275935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonuvogizup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857562/5904258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuwoganerolet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631505/boxeronavubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pinezininefos.epizy.com/clover_water_cooler.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_off0000d3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B1 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 233f572e8ab8ac7e33db4c4fabf0b804c2719f13571197b9c99e3fa846d11384
font_01_sfnt_off0000e672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE672 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff21b2d053cc9aa32ce29734f70eb650d1e8040b124010781518cb444c47d16