Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fbee7c57313a504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-04-04 22:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d1a117605c7a6d27caf46d32bc7fc1db SHA-1: 736a6bec3fe5046b0829fa13fb433a10133dd71c SHA-256: 8fbee7c57313a5043124e4e4901dd10737598187f87c2c627a714fc872f234b8
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 of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to exploit users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=stephen+king+the+mist+book+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393759/normal_5fe54f6e368b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vurujupafowutox.mypressonline.com/dezotedokulimunudagexafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419849/normal_5fe1c47bac940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445334/normal_6037ff014e5f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zokazurimila.mygamesonline.org/kipolofapinosesojozamaka.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/0e379137-c3b9-4bd5-a720-ff3460381151/subitezelixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c935e50e-96ed-47be-a811-48bdcf8bd3b4/company_of_heroes_2_multiplayer_trainer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5090c2af-253d-40c3-bfb7-942fc6db26b0.filesusr.com/ugd/0511f5_96ffe3e952b244709f75b85782934cdd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52468903-0e2d-47c5-babb-61e1d305d291.filesusr.com/ugd/32777b_8cfe9c2388a741f5a863b644e6693736.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/31061eb7-e22d-4827-b819-87dd98f9bde8/kindergarten_reading_comprehension_passages_with_multiple_choice_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9dc8676a-0e58-44ee-a512-e339c7094702.filesusr.com/ugd/7c0652_3bdecf97da8644099df61a1b6581c981.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c4dd7f6-d32e-402b-a48d-100caf7a8c67/why_is_ocd_so_convincing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b67da43-c88c-4889-937b-f77813172f03/xapiviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://854397d5-242e-4836-9f1e-4d22a5541959.filesusr.com/ugd/88a329_3fa6faaac3214949bb1ffb8201b6bae4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e268c28-2239-4e67-a417-2f270ffe6606/amplificador_crown_xti_2000_especificaciones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/91d0830e-6a72-41df-9751-581f3d28c1a1/81058104630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af514a27-2068-4656-b9ec-44bc5be2721d/peace_is_an_offering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fb413987-6e77-4bf1-aaa6-e97eb550fbee.filesusr.com/ugd/108936_6f82dc69cd6a43beac07a7f8d06d3a2f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/024c7756-af94-4868-a1f6-1c7a64fa3fb2/putolazizajen.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_off0000f8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CC 5612 bytes
SHA-256: b281bcc973559b21cd3987929b977c99382f39179c5cc80e3c5c6339e29b8463
font_01_sfnt_off00010bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BBB 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 64c2df3b99d1a85e8ebc549f53666be2053d48c40aa9284e9cd4effc755e4ac6