Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 817eb5b39cfa9c98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-03-12 10:40:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 53050e8f1f3759ce7afaf900de867cb9 SHA-1: df3a2d5434409fcace7414c4d2267f2ab52378a5 SHA-256: 817eb5b39cfa9c986806f593fda16734b63088db504bfd1dee0a7106156e6f2a
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a mass of external links, many of which appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users. The document explicitly lures the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic for credential theft or malware installation. The primary redirector URL identified is https://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=hymns+piano+sheet+music+for+beginners.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=hymns+piano+sheet+music+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • https://tibufidis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740046/f65f16008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444856/normal_603fa323aa01d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munefetuwavebif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683017/9888824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409123/normal_5ff661c2ee4e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366015/normal_5fe028d92d9de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrofthol.space/truth_or_dare_questions_over_text_generatorgoujs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483856/normal_5fe269781f7b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404515/normal_603e8fb00a21b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jupojunidukeze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012404/wibetisosu-wimiliza-toxinuvagoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://complect-tech.ru/sulufuromoperipakalasd51vs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371248/normal_6041d45580e6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380079/normal_6020fa406f409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457862/normal_5ff0a3025506d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejideba/paulo_coelho_libros_frases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/teximikamukubo/43857465903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kevava/ball_bearing_sizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dosalapasenow/82277746617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rewepalazamiso/dd_books_5e_set.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tonisefoteka/cellules_caliciformes_localisation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dowadotiju/89291500402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sajatesawodiji/35249177589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/setigafat/50645112193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wufujudisu/davibaxevinamexapad.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_off0000fbbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBB 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 88bd5c8a9b90733b90e5299165c218bead7f16146de0657fe1268fd7433bdac2
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA3 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 719f731916aafec032516b146fd46fd1f20186be4a3b44a9da3e5b00af3b4d03