Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89970ad6b21bef32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-22 09:55:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6df082f4dd4cf9af266c48d916ec6d08 SHA-1: 143ffd8f6570214f72a2d0d23d8795328d2ccfe8 SHA-256: 89970ad6b21bef32b6945fe195e81bfb60150a2971d6dd095c094f08ebf2d403
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting a link farm or redirection to malicious sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or content manipulation scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+drain+an+open+central+heating+system
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407301/normal_6001bd6d51e1c.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/najiligopej/b8igieL/82521312618.pdf
    • http://sumomubidisuwo.iblogger.org/vikikagemutaxapefat.pdf
    • https://ridejotewofo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314456/99907bf9b76.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/raridulil/hgeNJDj/28994709553.pdf
    • https://wavasifowimuzog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135321241/vixudexu.pdf
    • https://gifuroromila.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134377961/9159400.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419640/normal_602ad57835a42.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fezivabuja/OIbhija/dezojonagot.pdf
    • https://fawitazekivaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454143/8156319.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/duzexefemosaxe/real_housewives_of_new_york_episode_guide.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tudawufed/51215149336.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jukoxisojow/who_are_the_characters_in_the_story_lather_and_nothing_else_by_hernando_tellez.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vojapu/3208287571.pdf
    • http://tedijafubivot.epizy.com/words_boyzone_instrumental_free.pdf
    • http://mapojadesagez.epizy.com/what_you_mean_by_urban_area.pdf
    • 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eebc.bin
398550ecfd17f9ce02615c5c5acf54628d02d16a3638afda360f5b2e3a501685
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBC 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000101d6.bin
9f6f79fcf4133248b06cedab15c4b9510ac94d5ae4808520dc51d06a58a01a26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D6 10988 bytes