Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cbec7edb216a2af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-06-08 06:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d835e864d69c0ea861bcb6cbcec0a646 SHA-1: 206b3592f79c9b4d8bf6b13826961555d9bea246 SHA-256: 8cbec7edb216a2af837b47b515bd5a0910238c96f013aa2b6b9399cca6a2effa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points towards a redirection-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/pbw?utm_term=clark+creative+education+csi+factoring+and+quadratics+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382789/normal_603c4c7ae3474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408981/normal_5ff9eb7f80eb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462379/normal_5fc7657227334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virenogapugutu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134635416/wakedobod-wukefofo-pejabijumodulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424632/normal_5ff2f71ea0f8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazapefonufoteb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134637130/suxufare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dizarikovir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627165/7124481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magapevalapa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874167/d9efa18ee8b16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379744/normal_603a70488085a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412584/normal_60051fc3de29a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411231/normal_604a9eb80ffbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485157/normal_5fded60c35dcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guferewefozitak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134393558/55988201104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424692/normal_603b14bb87796.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/b2e98bc6-9f30-4d99-be68-08cd59000b61/will_there_be_a_revolution_in_the_united_states.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/667d94d2-19dc-4711-b676-51677f38974a/is_inkjet_or_laser_printer_better_for_photos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7878ebe8-46f2-4ddd-86e8-031bac641ca5/wikufato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8fae355f-c243-4e51-a796-f4ef6a211192/acer_aspire_one_cloudbook_11_memory_upgrade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e7314de-359b-4307-885e-4f685718e2bf/que_significa_ala_en_espaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1df60af2-4d42-4bff-921d-e48a6d2455a9/is_thinkorswim_available_in_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/220d362b-d1ae-4d09-a67c-b46ecfd8957b/easy_keto_dessert_recipes_no_bake.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_off0001024c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024C 5540 bytes
SHA-256: b2b365ed9e1d7ee8f37765a76d5f0c51b9c40b7f40df1a29b5293b07b4b07e71
font_01_sfnt_off00011540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11540 12360 bytes
SHA-256: 45a068a567a1ba01bbc7b7f1d0b8205166cb00e61122c33a41ebd6c7f8d24a7d