Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 847ee52cf603daaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-01 18:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 43a1d962858111236b503f11d8387780 SHA-1: 75638b5a130db128101516927859b5788ccdad06 SHA-256: 847ee52cf603daaf3e230af7a064c703a8da5a4ec509612572b371060985ed27
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading an encrypted payload, likely by providing a password within the document itself to bypass gateway scanning. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF contains numerous external links, with one pointing to a potentially malicious URL, and others to benign-looking files on pbworks.com, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://pistant.ru/pbw?utm_term=free+audit+report+template+word PDF link annotation
    • https://gaxizizobepebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740618/a3cb3a44db54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisudobu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813554/b4127e167d474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fisukafetif.pbworks.com/f/zombie_shooter_2_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supatibu.pbworks.com/f/naleler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekivuxuga.pbworks.com/f/harrington_plastics_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gosirata.pbworks.com/f/29229637536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midevodimu.pbworks.com/f/29772044253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c1f2537-ded6-40d3-9971-6ed79f733387/9187883422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab28f08b-1dd1-4b18-8d08-586dbbde46bd/pemovesunifawibopijilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojifot.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144425820/81247938612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tisowowuduwe.pbworks.com/f/wolfteam_bedava_nakit_ekme_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wepoline.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144450555/rar_password_cracker_4.20_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03495089-67fe-4522-b88c-e842ad51d574/bedobuviduvonuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2c97da2-fb32-47c5-940c-24ad5e534363/how_do_you_learn_reiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/977e6b2f-e32b-4f30-8056-1100fe58c7d2/the_island_of_dr_moreau_1977_parents_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8299e46c-44d8-4ff9-b946-570e47d1e1fd/exercises_to_improve_report_writing_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitefov.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144451728/duvometogevupogugafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a644fae-523b-438f-9485-a1799e7b716e/vita_spa_salon_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/162c97c4-49d9-4fb2-94b2-c62cb6451e64/62512724993.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_off0000f03b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03B 4972 bytes
SHA-256: b2e79810a418d3792e9c0ef6062b17c78d987f231c7a73e8077579503bfb2c5c
font_01_sfnt_off00010121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10121 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 0e90b5d0c2541647a463d82071d9e49ea7b5a6cd1fd5a3bcc9ba9dea78360d0d