Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6983935ab7bed815…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-13 00:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ef3f660ff19317e30f96c865eb2c076f SHA-1: ae56b09fbdd84fd1d4cb234ccde7143616454f9e SHA-256: 6983935ab7bed815262062a72323bf23e4905fe3d014047f7a7f517aae346077
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The primary lure appears to be a fake free download of a medical textbook, indicated by the document's metadata and embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/pbw?utm_term=hadzic+regional+anesthesia+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458417/normal_603ce80c71342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476140/normal_6049f41a6f3f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387031/normal_60608af5f34e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bovemadewu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651231/rimedokagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojipakubi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134679558/jewawesifajaj-tubuvixowu-pefip-lusezalozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rilofope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134630674/529f4476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofenerezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446603/dojukugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mifimixaxenerut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999571/2efa87a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulabelavomeviz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413951/2517466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadegelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134734806/3f6211a7121e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowimunikak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346477/1655074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405925/normal_606548bc1272d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kigilepoda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901239/biwepuwa_nobijapomi_xijaxilimefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foravidamekog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303307/35fd4b64e2f4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobajepefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482915/4788290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wokozizexufam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234926/7077660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ledekatibawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265754/melimafonufowe.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/02072b24-8611-422d-bc4f-b87eae47b5a8/statistics_tutorial_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56ec7007-0c4d-4c17-974f-1329b4fcea9b/57823976467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/287940b6-4a01-4fa6-9125-fc5700c88920/equivalent_fractions_worksheets_grade_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zafobagusaz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145122357/45259097129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b790787-66d0-4bab-a635-b22fb7b0b8fa/how_to_change_oil_from_honda_hr214_lawn_mower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopilep.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145211973/7607611071.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_off0000e757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE757 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 8d32b7a7a880ec22a3b3b158ab814c0cf200a8882a86eb8b7be488acb6e499da
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2D 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 8bbe0ced88f53eb83a232c8116d2b370b71e66e0a1c8cdf180e3183b695d2318