Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b50e5a85a8663fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-03-22 23:04:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ee53d0f0938a75e61a24c73ddb036b35 SHA-1: 2230cdfdfd2e99bea66c6c5bdb1c6eb54b35dbd3 SHA-256: 8b50e5a85a8663fa4877a18836fa0712d0cdbae7d17a7a91d808c1aa096aece4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing operation. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggest this malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classification confirm the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=what+kind+of+bond+will+potassium+form+with+sulfur PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470224/normal_60251dae58b70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalibigexewekef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712129/6581ec22bdec6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidepobowajaxuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814761/vurorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467576/normal_6025721492dc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itwomen.space/76034176779366rq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nijasofefovo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134719995/xilani_donijutalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474739/normal_5ff93de57dc49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trikotoria.ru/excel_transpose_entire_worksheetrtem1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpless.vip/design_of_prestressed_concrete_structures_nptelk5cfq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477910/normal_5fe7c801db3ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulodegusatoto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636763/pawogokedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakhavto.ru/zoxubakinotofanasoxirizanfugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvukodu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453249/9ce677a0eb49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f13dd0f9-fe0a-4257-a88d-d9af1a1cf0e3.filesusr.com/ugd/d954c5_3bfeea8f9c6843a2a30929940ac5c456.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3857ddc0-2b33-46ba-b4a8-ebef9b167687.filesusr.com/ugd/5cc0d5_5daf188b4e4c4eccb0617e0684a76644.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://botalibinizor.rf.gd/59589287206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konevimojo.epizy.com/free_worksheets_community_helpers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapaxaj.rf.gd/48000763280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kofeninoxilerif.epizy.com/beginner_grammar_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b84c3727-5d5a-4c5d-9d5d-21cac87b3a69.filesusr.com/ugd/fdd6c2_cf35131ff6854456a2a846dcaefbc812.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aa5f33e9-793b-4807-a257-9eac84d314d0.filesusr.com/ugd/aa57b2_06fe349ce9b340e2beb542052093607e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://535a9070-e28a-464b-adc5-c02ad08be00b.filesusr.com/ugd/9df9d6_cd13f4cf0fd64b6ba2abcae4593fd40c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zirofasorajama.epizy.com/jotul_602_cb_parts.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_off0000e4a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A6 5592 bytes
SHA-256: bb364e35cfa3c7e47b8837e9c1cbeb280c42870d81c0e3dd08573e58cb93ac0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF790 9880 bytes
SHA-256: c01ab8f2016127ccb91c22c8bcb232dfec768fffaed2684a8e42a4c795978055