Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8439f22ce62cbc83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-02-16 10:50:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: b68de8a5def64884c4bb1f40cbc81952 SHA-1: 0ad346533992f9c10c6223abd212e29d9c6a4dbd SHA-256: 8439f22ce62cbc834cb7128d4e966d44303308112684f7dca583c1d1f639c092
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 hosted on disposable domains or services like Weebly, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Turtle beach px51 pc setup', suggesting a lure to attract users to these malicious links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://leonvi.ru/aws?utm_term=turtle+beach+px51+pc+setup PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tojebaru/F0gcvjf/garden_tractor_ball_hitch_adapter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bewabolome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347927/perovi-kumaluteripunu-kagozofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bixolajulepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746591/katizibujikari_zusowabixulo_lugurofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mulibini.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881685/zulogakafavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalvictory.group/silevodijoxobuwesuvinogr4ny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sovurides.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349611/gujux_zubuzawe_katoverupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saleproducts.pro/25117874133hccdq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zikapipumimapo.22web.org/vefobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fumamimed/jjbjcgi/zuxinifojusixafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404745/normal_60080ad355c9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://callup.today/338527247286ki8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421365/normal_5feed470100c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tulivugid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134607321/waxilumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-english-temple.com/greensleeves_violin_dueterxwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365591/normal_5fff649d0ac5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nujidegowupi/0pVQhhc/starlight_cinema_14_showtimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokiwaxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740814/7162197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zepinimokibe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373719/kidofagoluwumipipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413117/normal_5fe199b9a5fbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/puxedimuwo/hiibhag/pubuzajusajimeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://nosekaj.epizy.com/concave_lens_ray_diagram_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midowadijurufak.epizy.com/ropaxa.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_off00012a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A59 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 3d91b9b6e5832ed90be2a975f3b81194dc0e6d22bda15dec202abd9d2bf6fdfc
font_01_sfnt_off00013b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B61 14064 bytes
SHA-256: 2f65a853024f84392456c8b5aa7aaafa1c64d1176d8d5c1fc936b0be2a8b99ee
font_02_sfnt_off00016883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16883 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361