Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 893bc26800c0143b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-04-03 11:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df6d1628e8ba4b4a3df47f422b2d4b97 SHA-1: 751b15f1fc10b981870bba962bb5ec69b0d9ec5c SHA-256: 893bc26800c0143bca2fd4e614c254e5164183d3e328cd180ca18fd6de13b6ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link farm designed to boost SEO. One of the primary external URIs, 'https://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=homogeneous+and+heterogeneous+catalysis+pdf', is flagged as suspicious. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host a large number of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=homogeneous+and+heterogeneous+catalysis+pdf
    • http://nesobaka3.xyz/the_authority_of_the_believergwuoe.pdf
    • http://easterthjg.com/how_to_use_knitting_machine_ribberjqj20.pdf
    • http://crawlmqyu.space/992369612690cd7y.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f4346a7-6c1b-4c07-8251-a73c548e257c/impresora_brother_mfc-j615w_manual.pdf
    • https://fc9a8e44-b853-4378-b933-957c6fa9ceda.filesusr.com/ugd/1da781_f6866cb9db654572a592b4425b513fb1.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wufujudisu/jogos_xbox_360_rgh.pdf
    • https://a26b494c-4f54-4b9d-aaa3-e02d462d315a.filesusr.com/ugd/c6268f_a9bddb9df87c45f89728b5b684fd1af0.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xoferuzu/neil_degrasse_tyson_quotes_about_learning.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mejados/modern_biology_textbook_online.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xuzed/defiant_castle_keypad_deadbolt_manual.pdf
    • https://e40da922-b0e4-44be-9878-2d4898ccab21.filesusr.com/ugd/3a38e0_a042d7c9067440f78502e8436409785d.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8315a057-8f35-4899-b367-ef10c67b28d1/el_viaje_definitivo_analisis_estilistico.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c45f48f-99e2-409a-9756-22887b7692b7/what_are_the_rules_of_internet_etiquette.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sirilagewuga/flowers_in_the_attic_movie_2014_ending.pdf
    • https://c63ca81c-6df4-4ec3-bc2e-8508f29a6879.filesusr.com/ugd/d48fe3_1f9f291b17c84e5b87ba2f38d7dd37e7.pdf?index=true
    • https://2a04f01a-7147-4793-98aa-b59dc93e6f96.filesusr.com/ugd/efcdeb_ae07c08980f3445582fcac2dad3eeb56.pdf?index=true
    • https://528a8416-53f4-4693-bcf0-540471887af1.filesusr.com/ugd/c3aa89_78b58109642740be8908b48265746da1.pdf?index=true
    • https://b89c0965-50b5-483f-b67e-52f573158f4f.filesusr.com/ugd/1e222e_1b4b495e20ea4fac8f25c1a834f80042.pdf?index=true
    • https://51f47fa2-20f7-4ec4-bb91-8ae4aee689b4.filesusr.com/ugd/917232_8b7983fff79c4acfaff89aabe8ec2033.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c761e99-074a-4c53-8405-c146c8677cd7/67386724460.pdf
    • https://ab2ac9d4-4772-4872-829d-c19fde0a4f90.filesusr.com/ugd/b919b3_23099a359751498e87e6c2facde0eefe.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b8383b4-47f2-4a8e-a547-4718865c8da4/gobigivarusuzekuju.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/369d557a-9f79-43d9-ba33-fffdda77b683/main_theme_of_hills_like_white_elephants.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2807089-f569-4756-aa38-f8b104093961/book_report_template_high_school.pdf
    • https://9ef77391-fdd1-48d8-ba15-364b07375333.filesusr.com/ugd/ebefdf_9ef295075faf4506858cee379102e00d.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e727.bin
b42a23eebe8d063367647c34df39ae392b49e1be35a2d3a36be7eb0b2967f27b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE727 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa2e.bin
8146d18a8a3bc55347a5860d0c7f640ca4d6503d2fe48dc08fc0f880d58a444a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2E 10104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf9.bin
ed4cacdf5c35d6dc2bb66b387bfa6ca3961900a937a59046fa816361335c7d48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF9 16164 bytes