Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b18cf39df41c90f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-03-25 14:16:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b801170d3e138638d37c6e09305f1606 SHA-1: ed899ffbf2a079c4573e07bb7f69f453b24d3c92 SHA-256: 8b18cf39df41c90f857096d8bbb4b59dd8087a47dd449f11cf17a98df895513e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain a search query, which is likely a lure to direct users to malicious or scam-related websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=where+is+the+flame+sensor+located+on+my+furnace PDF link annotation
    • https://bubixoduxufito.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070588/dewebipufoveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480895/normal_604304d379f22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372361/normal_604383b83cb05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375095/normal_6044d8e67d831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenazago.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070597/duvusutididerezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379477/normal_5fcdc04e99d4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakozek.mypressonline.com/nuwilavexisasejulazeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikopariwoxa.mygamesonline.org/nigabetokapimata.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://zawumowu.rf.gd/dubai_job_online_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/10653a2c-a22a-495f-a040-0d4063c2991a/char-broil_gas_charcoal_grill_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1325f668-d0d2-417d-92f2-860a7a854372/sexusenutoxotulexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b00724d-5d0b-4c90-8aaf-44f586eed6cf/64137806408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b806010-f1ec-4647-8644-8697d9f4a418/11210871255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vobogiv.rf.gd/badowuwawigarajizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bozivexaterem.epizy.com/what_is_the_strongest_knot_to_tie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bifovigavij.myartsonline.com/6128038343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a687d50-27fe-4ef9-b18d-4732fbdf4753/74081139298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juvumutat.rf.gd/rawuvus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluwagasa.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_buy_a_tiny_house_on_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xupuwineris.epizy.com/23703511406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebagada.rf.gd/end_stages_of_arthritis_in_dogs.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_off0000e5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A2 5256 bytes
SHA-256: e4face595d211cec6a6a5dcd17e5223f39cc325759bc9d5f2231fcde6268d07b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF763 10492 bytes
SHA-256: c137166a58ed471b377f2ff9ad426d7dae205ae0e9bf2a5bdcece7cf43c56718
font_02_sfnt_off00011b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B17 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333