Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba5c2354c5cb293…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-11 19:37:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 7f8623bc91323b1e593d2d2cc157b8ff SHA-1: af5d65d5c41453511446164fd9a29b361fb63416 SHA-256: 8ba5c2354c5cb2931c25be41983cad45cb19b2be14088a150ce0816f641ae0ed
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, a common tactic for distributing phishing lures or directing users to malicious websites. Heuristics indicate a link farm on disposable hosting, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document, likely intended as a spearphishing attachment.

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://wastran.ru/pbw?utm_term=chi+la+sow+tamilrockers PDF link annotation
    • https://weziriditovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108838/kefilazipepido_vetuvotubopodef_tikebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405194/normal_6014099a1a96e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411490/normal_601ae553df641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385631/normal_60294a4b296ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gatevipamor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878843/6053442f5b06b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445532/normal_5fde0b13ca54a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409394/normal_5fd745c36f4c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valisuzikejuxeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017117/2658857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454286/normal_6029fe4fc9022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471719/normal_60334aae980c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455658/normal_6068782f7382c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4506131/normal_6037d2e4341ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408170/normal_602abb7aa487b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426550/normal_60470466ae838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375361/normal_605316b14a181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412905/normal_5fc62c48135dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4461245/normal_60b0c60e9a53f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tologivego.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145131777/13298997317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxikadafi.pbworks.com/f/how_to_file_a_cease_and_desist_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buvavipoluvu.pbworks.com/f/4319535826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiliser.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144684798/tisepejepowudapuvimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jazonewu.pbworks.com/f/69320694586.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_off0000e9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F2 5100 bytes
SHA-256: f0768c1afdcc9a023d434b5a1ac6904aa06c2c16e12b295cb208c7075717967b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB2E 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 4b30a294c537f33f4f1a2d7d93f625aa88b24279e101899ddc62f0c755bd25e1