Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79bc29bee7b2589c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-03-24 23:03:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 5ec289e3b45dc4e7faa4b9c4c4e57605 SHA-1: 54e1889cee68d084d9ca4d7e630481742764ab3a SHA-256: 79bc29bee7b2589c409b345b7f7164aa71bc4ab0cb1abc7157a230db2aed8f4a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Fafsa form pdf 2020' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=fafsa+form+pdf+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nolagutotato/athfihK/ark_survival_evolved_review_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bosamame/9vWEQFQ/78213767537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bufomofa/fNxfggz/kodiak_gun_safe_accessories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itdomen.fun/data_analysis_tools_in_excel0elkh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pasivuzuke/gnifhb4/nhl_hockey_live_streaming_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palitra-cveta.ru/millwright_aptitude_tests07i6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fibapezo/8Xmbhfq/angular_6_format_number_with_commas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/doxanusubomo/ujcXgig/94216615690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bionatur.space/pazufifoxoxononelbj91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extra-fon.ru/exploring_psychology_in_modules_9th_edition6dnxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xexanodu/jfhhjxt/48942782194.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/f0d04ac2-69e1-4d72-95d6-908d3d74c3fb/halloween_pe_games_with_no_equipment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7aff118d-26f6-4d76-9bc9-1838009e7274.filesusr.com/ugd/f80014_6d0c26b6940a456aa5bd2d9edb8bf78d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://af30af13-e0b7-4de0-aca7-7783c01eade2.filesusr.com/ugd/9757e7_c707bd283de74ff1b5002464cc2dee76.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ce00dee-6f7c-4c10-a1a8-9f7296813bad/apc_smart_ups_750_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wexoteluwag/vuragoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8767aa75-4bd5-48c0-94ca-24e983238001.filesusr.com/ugd/debdc1_11fe510edc7d478faa7695508f152e1d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ee1bc26-18be-44e0-bc2b-8d1dcfa66e3a/when_will_the_next_wings_of_fire_book_14_come_out.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zijivevip/1512867674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/478bf582-bc70-4e13-9242-45fe352f1385/why_is_my_vax_brush_not_spinning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e68787ff-6f11-4e4a-adfe-6dfc1ea95f36/has_the_bible_changed_over_the_years.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_off0000f8d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D5 5384 bytes
SHA-256: a6bed26b61936ab74337b19256decf56fd5c1206ae1dbc7c170e5b1ffa2a8763
font_01_sfnt_off00010b14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B14 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 024ec81da5c7b0bc0e4916a8958e97ae84421079dd6051a16efa35ca51128308