Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79fe7eb24a1f22df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-12 12:00:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ba43322e5620679de72afbc10152b5a1 SHA-1: 052b25db6fd0f000ebb7d320be5e75f9fa3d09ed SHA-256: 79fe7eb24a1f22df82a0722b83b0cf35c290fef52200edb13ba948c3bbaafd75
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one suspicious URL that is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure suggests it's designed to obscure malicious links within a seemingly innocuous collection of PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/pbw?utm_term=10+std+maths+book+english+medium PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386849/normal_6024264fc3de9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kevuwegifutawed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746568/bosabibatapajoliwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barezixajeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318527/b804ff1cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456128/normal_600a45d77e427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pedomolakikivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134440841/gaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dufinatako.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317719/jitalejope_zumizulu_dikukotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365626/normal_5fc658f945c48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478655/normal_6064ae6abec64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/839474ab-2b62-4303-a9ff-4ed0a3bc2ea8/lg_g_vista_vs880_phone_case.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasotosexu.pbworks.com/f/munawajadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c04249d8-fa0f-459a-89ed-47ba567bee7b/sipekojidifadirowijibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ririgifavem.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144594942/directx_11_download_windows_10_64_bit_mega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64ca9279-fc1b-42aa-aeb2-47557208fefd/xemevivuzesebokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7db9c2f-c19a-4e89-a479-605ca4283f94/cosmos_and_psyche_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c9420efa-e6f6-453d-9ab2-03cc52d89e32/23599961924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00f349ae-5b31-41ed-9205-1e83d0c63fbf/91126178082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezakoliz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144990912/examples_of_a_good_cv_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mifimoruzuwo.pbworks.com/f/rolijulobokuwekosoniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guronavageba.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144510927/postscript_the_sequel_to_ps_i_love_you_cecelia_ahern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6de221e3-3f74-4792-ad45-590daef254bf/26027871769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4ef82d1-9a6c-4665-8fad-1006b3aa18e0/spanish_to_english_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/543379a2-0295-43c5-a7ee-9fc8289da02c/how_to_charge_jbl_live_200bt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/715d8d51-363d-47d9-84fc-4e5003f57e76/34454999516.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD4 5448 bytes
SHA-256: cec00edd84172908e50bff62e1bf7d92e5859af3d82a98299aa788b03b4954d8
font_01_sfnt_off00010231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10231 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 63670c6030ed556c4febf639e3e97e283e964da8824899605707dcfe6419db60
font_02_sfnt_off0001279e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279E 7064 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4c2037a101198c02cae7bb3a27df2efa042072c5610398779505eb04652449