Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b74235b7c2b4e92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-08 21:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: db377b1e50261fb1bbea4e978c9d95a5 SHA-1: e42015f314f6ea5b6a0a15c5646259d07acdd886 SHA-256: 6b74235b7c2b4e92927632be8f0ac76c1dcc6976cdeabd23e711669ff7bfca99
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to link farms hosted on disposable domains, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic. One prominent URL, 'https://drafthe.ru/pbw?utm_term=numerical+ability+question+and+answer', is presented as a lure for 'numerical ability question and answer'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://drafthe.ru/pbw?utm_term=numerical+ability+question+and+answer PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375077/normal_600660a6f194c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452595/normal_603010058ac48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462345/normal_605b7d4bb862f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449781/normal_603ea637239f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369164/normal_6027f40f25720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417213/normal_5fdfadebeaa4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463785/normal_5ff088f2d903e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tejudafo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144818469/56663094058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natizasex.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144577728/jivaliratuseguwawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niluputevi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144452247/jozugopagonixuxejajenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimotamiju.pbworks.com/f/favozajigesaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumedew.pbworks.com/f/why_does_ford_use_manual_locking_hubs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujiwareneje.pbworks.com/f/space_shooter_mod_apk_download_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokajawema.pbworks.com/f/18806193882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xifatarege.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144554466/xajujosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibevekofano.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144584715/zisatazakajuxepukoxibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazupamufode.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144718206/ejercicios_caligrafia_script_para_imprimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bokibagaror.pbworks.com/f/percy_jackson_and_the_olympians_the_lightning_thief_book_pages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebokuvog.pbworks.com/f/77323737996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusuwoxub.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144426882/bolokubukawiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujusevo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144479400/how_to_use_rpcs3_emulator_on_pc.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_off0000f3ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EE 5512 bytes
SHA-256: cea13008576f1e7c04ac9092c5c6ea5dc711a3a3666ca3f3a560b7a748ae1968
font_01_sfnt_off000106a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A2 11784 bytes
SHA-256: 8923975018eced9776a6b7b632100c7b886a90f1288c23a314dd59a595146079
font_02_sfnt_off00012e54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E54 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 1ffca1ef16be5e2ec436e77f9211a88ad3199dc781cb76600401cc2e2c7dce6d