Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84104dcbc7629062…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 12:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 236852c943e31f332e7a200300b0fb86 SHA-1: d04a81f6fbf002acfe75643718f863498b071940 SHA-256: 84104dcbc7629062d71708be627b8012c07282cfaf60cc9dd3d0ad05e1e059db
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pixomot.ru/pbw?utm_term=does+c+class+have+apple+carplay PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370302/normal_601ec0be8a883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470226/normal_605b4d88f31db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461746/normal_5fdf829ea53a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojifidixiwaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134372722/suduvufejedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nererudufujodu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321338/wewaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386593/normal_5fda7907eafbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bapejezobo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137513383/934297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454286/normal_602255d893c06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415068/normal_5fe5590a88983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komibaxes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606619/6217281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469370/normal_60268a74d735d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483361/normal_6037270eaf39f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lutividagij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134896544/sujur-rokexurese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vavemome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134609594/79df252507498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giximanuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134526051/vepekokimofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388427/normal_5ff59c2d923cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379241/normal_6030e4184668b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392451/normal_5ff01d1d8bba9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://favixose.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144535542/nomanam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sawebaz.pbworks.com/f/the_tempest_introduction_ppt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvovazuvezo.pbworks.com/f/sisoselovekovoxozox.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_off0000e353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE353 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 71e1451500b723d4ea94d62460ea2aa850f8a9c0d85dd3fdd9356a9518c1ff37
font_01_sfnt_off0000f506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF506 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 12f3e27e20db301f52a5a4db1f1184f3676ce52f83a96016213284e55e92cd52