Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b979ad4b544cf57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-05-20 21:30:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a74613159e67ad51c377d2a3c7247430 SHA-1: 39f6fa1d9fb70df0e4971db368dc9d7a1cb80d00 SHA-256: 8b979ad4b544cf57b09ae232d994ca9778235a32ebdef7b0d86d7e960ad342c0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, with a primary lure related to movie downloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure suggest an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=telugu+new+movie+download+2016+mp4+avi+3gp PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456391/normal_6004f04a5663a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sizamuvexiluti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134644091/5f7949cb9fbe39a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wifovusu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134312249/dajonapexexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486983/normal_5fcaa1a65312c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jopakawinotu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407654/jibejusobujuxup-gitolaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415944/normal_6061036c7ed7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vovasodakujex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874601/wivejewukogiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492240/normal_60387a0e20a76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuxuvekukiku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380251/juxuwixirepira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449779/normal_5ff3822173268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495042/normal_6026a3f5ded18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462379/normal_5fc7657227334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452862/normal_605913d13a216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388827/normal_6032d3b001cb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gufogejerujog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/wulib.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/632a6834-f97c-463c-ab14-ca341b4672f4/girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo_swedish_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/298811c4-9749-4135-ba63-139bf4e3cc16/rovavapeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a998c984-1095-49e1-aed7-195d5e6244ed/audi_s4_avant_review_uk.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_off0000ed0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0D 4612 bytes
SHA-256: 4e2b62a4e59241bc4f8637128a23a9f34b8a043be7092fd64f5e3738c89c4421
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5C 5840 bytes
SHA-256: 29a73980af5d9a78b7085faaf2b0613b80cf6c22c8d19066f8ca30a932365027
font_02_sfnt_off0001114e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1114E 14516 bytes
SHA-256: b540740ec726c71e3542dbfaa4f3886f46642f7ecf00a74a8890493ac3e7a46b