Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca174556e875e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-14 18:19:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 739d6d3514eeebe3f3b7464481e5e2a3 SHA-1: dc2a868901405b55804d43e49c36db212428d951 SHA-256: 8ca174556e875e97aa8e34353d756b1e1b029542080d71e8fe79bf17e4d37329
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate this behavior. The embedded URL 'https://pixomot.ru/pbw?utm_term=all+book+download+website' is likely part of this redirection scheme, aiming to trick users into downloading content. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://pixomot.ru/pbw?utm_term=all+book+download+website PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480905/normal_5fd6804d76234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374980/normal_5ff5617356da8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384299/normal_60190980302ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajowomifekorur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314212/3cea6ff338b1ea9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muwalivom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695892/bemovovon_belikofekogiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372361/normal_5fdc615a88e35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487902/normal_6066d24c493c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446782/normal_5fcb143fe172f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gileledera.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874536/be0a24a0c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369505/normal_606d6a8c789d0.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/b8579a4b-9991-4090-9b19-0a76b2feb3ac/83191177057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesowununak.pbworks.com/f/death_be_not_proud_poem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d1b0ce0a-b107-4af2-932f-cd4ea9410b41/wall_e_movie_in_hindi_dubbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7cc03001-0ac2-4b7c-a312-cd2177e33fcd/dixie_chopper_blackhawk_hp_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0ff1f721-e79a-4fc1-886f-b0f7633575ad/is_bonding_good_netflix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevuxowina.pbworks.com/f/nudumorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/86928dce-de47-4dbc-9742-5a8833117c3b/vagekarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viluxese.pbworks.com/f/how_to_start_keto_diet_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/68cd8fb9-e05f-43d2-b7cd-d0d588cd0a4e/singer_pixie_plus_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/91a87a5e-cef6-45dc-8d5f-42228ad48aef/55944067663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7d08863-bfbd-4c3f-a281-7cbbf7f448e1/los_gallinazos_sin_plumas_libro_completo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijovaj.pbworks.com/f/halo_combat_evolved_unblocked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9cede3ee-290d-4c64-8c2c-cdcb16a52977/unix_shell_scripting_questions.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_off0000f8da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DA 5008 bytes
SHA-256: d6554d3e752684ec3791a830c63a2c6ac0edfd18fa5e81f021d176c17c8254a4
font_01_sfnt_off00010a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A06 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 4129f0e7bd43d3cfb0fd48d471eed4a285ca257a3d13a61b791f438050cbd1b4