Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81b6c7546d28e4d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-05-28 09:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d1724f325584e359c24bc09822c6b6bc SHA-1: 5c74d1c9caea26081329560d91f732465e3b53a5 SHA-256: 81b6c7546d28e4d96ac17b993fa265714f73d556b6008c730d1a54704de73556
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one prominent URL pointing to a suspicious domain that appears to be part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to service animal certification, likely intended to trick users into visiting the malicious site. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/strik?utm_term=how+much+is+it+to+get+your+dog+certified+as+a+service+animal PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380869/normal_603eb4a85fa75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warubexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647576/zegiliwo-polapitarixifo-tufefobafoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374364/normal_603522f758ede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posapana.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454172/4029230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413697/normal_5fda48c3dd746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392860/normal_604efdda1d61c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wixefonimav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437632/ed909fd456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nojinogexosop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134695112/8344037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirebokiva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134634247/walibawugizoliz-xetep-wujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385863/normal_60316b79ed7b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496148/normal_6061074bcd198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fofosaja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234592/zovigorilumanif-gilelebupaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durapafived.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438767/monisamojizebexova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jogemubo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321321/99d95eda8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482849/normal_6000888a33e46.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/660e2722-f787-4d9d-911a-9c0c58a66f96/how_to_write_rap_lyrics_like_a_genius.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/431fe565-265c-44b4-824c-482d56e3e429/64680001987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43fa1e78-cb0f-4566-91a9-6c33500091ce/hopper_with_sling.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/faf763a3-64f1-4f4c-89de-fdd2f1baa30b/machine_learning_interview_questions_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dae4a424-5fab-4e14-aa47-5a42e288f7d2/33516838356.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_off0000e3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EA 5648 bytes
SHA-256: bf7383ea142c321a6d0875d2df0d847a8c52b5bc106a2e923d114fcc3d9d16bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF714 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 232ac13aed4ef83b5bfbe1f6534c99d79ac74330171245e8d4b8bee5fa8b0ed2