Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84d9be47c8c466f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-03-28 22:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 511abb98bfbbcb5a15af28b8c1b26d41 SHA-1: 83929bcb9c1dc05a9063131f8316276634c09dd2 SHA-256: 84d9be47c8c466f8f3ac60aaef4c00c89e68340c9c0b46eb45a5600deb1c8dfc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary URL, 'https://xajibur.ru/wix?keyword=jocko+willink+discipline+equals+freedom+pdf+free', appears to be a lure for specific search terms, likely to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://xajibur.ru/wix?keyword=jocko+willink+discipline+equals+freedom+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456116/normal_6035d9412e536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412396/normal_603efe3891b14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486748/normal_6043601271ae4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375716/normal_605303ef0cacf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389108/normal_5fe411ae9d646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426832/normal_604e91dcc574f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366676/normal_603e2b2bc2571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387807/normal_6000948c548cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384308/normal_603b4dd049cc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410730/normal_60325990ca3e6.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/a85fc7fe-6ed2-4694-9f98-843336df2a98/coreless_magnetic_current_sensor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e7477297-9048-4451-8e07-860372538449/fedex_store_sign_printing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ba428ff1-d53d-4eb5-bdb2-cc960067f420.filesusr.com/ugd/7041e4_9475385318d2424f8d42aabb6c69ebac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f598a4e9-5f09-4e6d-95f7-537b2e994133/phanteks_enthoo_luxe_2_build.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://146c8b6c-0b46-450b-8ed0-b45f1e2a4974.filesusr.com/ugd/b58d21_98fdc902832847699ac3b6a645852857.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a3d9551-d11e-4f18-b321-b9a7ca1c00e8/dr_seuss_freebird_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9783cb26-a2cd-45a9-bf39-5c4b3bc99d3f/samsung_un55js7000f_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://765a5d72-5774-4a4d-a421-5c90307110ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f2a868_d0ca011e999b41b090c7afc561264ad0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a218bea5-c874-4f76-aefe-81c61a08a761/why_is_my_printer_not_printing_the_right_colors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e437b920-fa79-41d5-b67c-0ca059f4e77a.filesusr.com/ugd/d97c10_d897dfafbf4b440f98b59115d2ec2800.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c4cd0dbc-23d7-4f11-b65f-2561cec8abe5.filesusr.com/ugd/516793_a048756513ed4d13845552b4558edc83.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://84daacc9-7e90-4c5d-b1ed-526950900c49.filesusr.com/ugd/73f3b0_dc7cceff9dca41d284a061b1adc3ddc5.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00010989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10989 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 7b6bef15d7688e8f90f6cfd5312fe7579646b7d7d3aa3f5beb10e8c51021cb1f
font_01_sfnt_off00011c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C80 11180 bytes
SHA-256: a1f1f6a5935178f00b5f1c9e73d0396e530fbf4436abcd1fe9203ea66536cb20