Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cd2585cb25edc4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 00:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5b3c487496f7c54e454ebb8802a5e476 SHA-1: e721d052e0af3306ba90343a069aaeb3e98e598e SHA-256: 8cd2585cb25edc4a916521f913b6d44de4a3c31a1691a4e65b049eb70afce179
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links pointing to various domains, many of which are disposable or associated with link farms. This behavior is indicative of SEO manipulation or a phishing campaign designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=average+students+remarks PDF link annotation
    • https://lezojefob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135319065/xonokazinesivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380699/normal_60257fd393694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454041/normal_601ca1b4a0ae9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxitojuwomig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302818/00a80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385850/normal_6010f7fb984b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixolojujosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134622111/bixufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393186/normal_5fded21f1e16e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bexukisutiso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873741/lomidufidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepadamive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134468065/d9fae26eeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mowavowami.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134591552/putigawuderezoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxidoneke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135993461/81535a0591244eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fupevigojajoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738700/5231950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufapagemegugux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134860181/fekodubojina-bukinegadewe-mitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kigemulu.pbworks.com/f/verbs_with_prepositions_speaking_activities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da319c4e-510b-4fc3-8d62-2f800ec2371e/how_to_train_your_dragon_series_voices.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9fd97130-c615-48d0-84d6-bca0ec149371/89908770884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8928b28-9382-4f58-abb6-62515e909b23/cuantos_milimetros_equivale_a_1_metro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezimin.pbworks.com/f/44031807423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cba2619a-39f0-49d7-afe6-c6424df888b2/rinebedogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zefuberiwuli.pbworks.com/f/trauma_team_wii_iso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niwomif.pbworks.com/f/35305480253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luwapoveduvi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144486306/xoxesufupafewivepatimotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce552108-aebf-40d3-8328-d930f062c573/ranitojafugajusa.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_off0000e27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27C 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 156cbebb2138d391b384f424a662cb8dce02272cfb6f3755da3ede1b66556d94
font_01_sfnt_off0000f438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF438 10260 bytes
SHA-256: fae0b6781bb407da239692e25057b339ef4b62ff53d337c55fff1b1c57c44627