Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 734e46f5586bcc45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-05-27 03:28:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3ec17fd43d1bc6a485234b3c2c71e31c SHA-1: f4cb1aa0168c28d4ddec33e19d5983437db87b24 SHA-256: 734e46f5586bcc455f548dd150c7191c3576dbfd3c9d0f6ef8c2a3e334c2bb8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to seemingly benign documents, but one key URL, https://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=sci+journal+impact+factor+2020+pdf, is flagged as suspicious. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links.

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 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.
  • 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/strik?utm_term=sci+journal+impact+factor+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365660/normal_601f70f4d2828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ranerenonosojib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483420/b5ef3ee69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476577/normal_6052b2858373f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namewedopuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583017/nixuroxogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446645/normal_6017579eca115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443815/normal_603dc3b068062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369518/normal_604f13c231e93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369793/normal_600f995fbe351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482869/normal_606622d720746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419410/normal_600bafad46434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonulimuwudepaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131723/rujejilukiredud-dobagezagu-repidirer-luzelamebotifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420775/normal_5fc8a346732b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404296/normal_5feb4e10e15e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368244/normal_5ffad8b261bab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sixapinipuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384402/borigexumakexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d56d9ab-6631-4984-a315-e03b1fe9d304/common_grammatical_errors_in_english_writing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf462f83-2510-49eb-a8a9-8bbd8f09ff01/how_much_does_an_ultrasound_tech_make.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d1f5a7df-5853-40b9-96a8-416a878117d5/karr_security_system_ford.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9707fe0c-0241-4ae0-9935-7a3f157bf99a/78728685917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e697c9f5-4ece-4dfb-a91d-5690bbbacc40/how_to_use_a_polder_digital_thermometer.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D8 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 2aa78997b25e0e806fdf4435794ba53eab9196168303cd2726cca06b4d4956cf
font_01_sfnt_off000104d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D5 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 3930d4b40e37bda872d1538ca365cfcc5429a0385ffa5b4a8227f3f678b25954
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC8 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 2173a1880e9f774f759393e7d0d28dda91d04d8a3eae6bea41b822770b343b90
font_03_sfnt_off00013f5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F5F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2