Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76d951963207daeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-03-26 05:48:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 532bcb757e7e45d3aabfa305d31710e4 SHA-1: f90c565704674abd66b1c7406be871d451ca0669 SHA-256: 76d951963207daebe141e18f03d8542aab5680e57a9cacc99ff6ae24d10d0859
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic firings suggest it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, with a primary focus on 'https://pelibifir.ru/aws?utm_term=how+to+write+news+report+example'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to news report examples, likely serving as a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pelibifir.ru/aws?utm_term=how+to+write+news+report+example PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408703/normal_602221d17686b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486053/normal_5ff497d197ea2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452593/normal_603526a44199c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lolkek.xyz/zigurawesix0vd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367911/normal_5fc9adf36d546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrights-notices-helps.com/kungfu_fight_movies1o9nd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuxogajow.iblogger.org/lonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465914/normal_605173b6f31fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://help-copyrightservice.xyz/lowrance_mark_4_gps_sonar_fish_finder_reviews9kgey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xewenofos.epizy.com/xigudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ff844e4-a85c-4791-8f08-ed7887cd968e/ultegra_di2_groupset_disc_ebay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c403777-3bdb-430d-a4ca-23d5788374d5.filesusr.com/ugd/e0034b_3871b39206534c2784d2a7dd09c64bdd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c183b790-cb34-49aa-848e-1a9f2b14dda3.filesusr.com/ugd/d8966e_5d4fc20580bf4bb9bef01a9580c8ad43.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fefisapuvekebi.epizy.com/geometry_glencoe_mcgraw_hill_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://30c74dc1-c3f2-4e71-8253-1ec84f3b94e1.filesusr.com/ugd/b8c6fa_4c76723e026b47a69b39c842495c3675.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a3159eb-2922-4160-841d-11942a27513a/levujexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e590c0d9-b694-44fb-9862-47327b30d8b0.filesusr.com/ugd/89363e_734a423c6b2a41bdab8b176771e551d4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09cf2717-2bac-45ce-8e4b-9708ea66f834/how_to_use_a_samsung_dvd_player_without_remote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://76b44699-1094-4fd8-8d4a-70b7be8159c3.filesusr.com/ugd/c450b2_1bc9ac58f5184b25a50a69e7aa1db66e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/053c1195-f4b6-47ce-bff2-ae102dbddb96/corona_kerosene_heater_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17888e67-3c2f-4714-b1f3-abd1e135e3a6/when_did_greek_mythology_start.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_off00010bde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDE 5088 bytes
SHA-256: e2839a97e46e6d61c16161d0d3077255e6fe5b820529cf8244531f6ca747ec4c
font_01_sfnt_off00011d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D25 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 9d4d5b244d77655cf3444d99d27c0f6cd266d1b88e70488a26a899772ad01758