Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77d5facad0f87f97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.1 KB Created: 2021-03-21 08:14:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 13138b6ac1ff8946c01159cb574fe545 SHA-1: 523f19aa5ba559bb4c2178fc69b22a4b496b38ff SHA-256: 77d5facad0f87f97d1f903aaf4adda16828abb6bd42adba081e4cbbf5dea8409
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though partially corrupted, references 'Delta airlines sustainability report 2017', likely a lure to encourage users to click on the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pelibifir.ru/123?utm_term=delta+airlines+sustainability+report+2017 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rabataxuvax/bKIojdS/world_commodity_prices_definition_economics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lobinazema/iifVBgj/dirt_bike_tracks_close_to_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noneniwetav/Tcggjg1/prison_break_season_4_episode_24_plot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449395/normal_604935ea12294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485926/normal_6015b7de8db5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460057/normal_5fea298cb085b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pimidima/lhbZlZr/ferejozivopebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454822/normal_603ef9ce152da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzowozuk/I3ulUgg/seoul_subway_map_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegunax.getenjoyment.net/pulakopudivobemulimudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotobajigufar.mywebcommunity.org/makro_catalogue_november_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katipef.medianewsonline.com/types_of_lower_limb_amputation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kukisigafumi/jWJOaD7/racing_motorsports_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supusatode.sportsontheweb.net/vinca_alkaloids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setokanekema.mygamesonline.org/an_anthology_of_short_stories_icse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijexibat.mywebcommunity.org/zovekuxejimuxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vaxarogajib/qVgeYwy/runescape_raw_shark_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454820/normal_601bf9819ffbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/disegivoji/Iia4Z5G/68609737355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kafujaguvo.mygamesonline.org/atmosfera_sprawdzian_nowa_era.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://47ab6ce1-aee6-4086-a8e7-31fe393d2411.filesusr.com/ugd/afbef4_6eeb4c74d19d41a9aa10ad0312de316e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://86a6be6f-1c3f-48a2-98e5-8a654ddc1212.filesusr.com/ugd/027f51_a03b09510629442cb20565163841fe6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3c4962d9-41f7-4f14-8396-dad57cc8de20.filesusr.com/ugd/a2de88_38ab8e82f7354dedb73e8e290d763c7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kubowulurarekij.myartsonline.com/riwasusogix.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_off000169e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169E9 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 0f08d407b8b7b6b3f78d234b63b6f93f167337d20c7c5675a383300a331e1fa4
font_01_sfnt_off00017c9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C9B 12156 bytes
SHA-256: cea403b7a8a217518fcc38459a4a7986cd7e2ddf81a74aa03144347149fd91a5