Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69bf11365048dae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-06-05 04:47:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: e06a6ff539aa634447d88510b61a383a SHA-1: b6ae53790dad97b9269207b8a8157f52bc7bcc94 SHA-256: 69bf11365048dae0515f14093750dd4e3eb4a4fcc7f339eed141d9af2d6bacea
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a common tactic of using documents as bait to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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/123?utm_term=market+research+survey+template+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jitebosezukazup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131420/449533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413585/normal_601adb93cb23b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tesudegijalel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438759/1599256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451018/normal_60280422acb70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485935/normal_605f845dd06b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477139/normal_5ff38e35a65c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413240/normal_5fdbb549be689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podixokudaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134236532/bitegagitemuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407996/normal_5fc875fb29d61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakokegeter.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723120/3879866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413473/normal_606e7f9f042f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirujodafepofon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707115/f03151e10b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466676/normal_601e6c17c4d99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448995/normal_5ff96e8b3de12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482215/normal_6001e1c80102c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepajodik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453945/luwuz_tupikesukevuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464314/normal_601be92526188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebilukirun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135306511/sosewemibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392218/normal_5ffdd24fbc9a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nogudoge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017621/2976633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447884/normal_60199045d4639.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/b44bc4df-a39c-4897-8e54-05b42ed92429/polycom_soundstation_2w_manual_ip_mode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/971d6626-258d-475f-b550-ac250d96edf6/6139513417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd0a1406-fccd-49e3-a34e-c35e37679b46/zukibuvuzakidafexex.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_off0000f757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF757 5624 bytes
SHA-256: ffbe0abda8bc19f5a60443a0d4321cf06e33700788be6538c3fb3ba7d9405371
font_01_sfnt_off00010a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6D 10396 bytes
SHA-256: a6d872a6cf4eb402f5f5483c5f07d06a7554f31002ba246a6a465d1335d31101