Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 912ba32d4b73daf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-03-28 17:40:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 16101a5b8b153d485f83c54167ba53c1 SHA-1: a06e50809965d331fd14bcc56e6c6bf52022d99e SHA-256: 912ba32d4b73daf5683a3e6bd6beb4a2e89b8b3ca6218d52bd26b8f9cd5bc901
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=research+methods+in+psychology+book, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=research+methods+in+psychology+book PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kukusagufo/ibje2ja/pufuzilaxezibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakozek.mypressonline.com/35203859060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416495/normal_6025a543c283d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478141/normal_6007f988db436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414679/normal_60209e57be886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tivuzofep/hgohhif/skins_for_roblox_without_robux_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/valujoper/icFFnfA/lekubelife.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/2ee6c8c0-a849-40fd-af65-9fc80c3ce075/jiwijalibefaluxuwuvonip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8137cd1e-393d-4948-8193-eca935452849.filesusr.com/ugd/756799_0e563c8de30948eabd1148e849276ccf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3e1d1bad-f645-4ebd-ac75-469e7ff7c972.filesusr.com/ugd/e745be_ef795a14ee6d4443903bf866c34ceab6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbb4626c-30cd-4868-9750-e7dad38ab2d0/is_samsung_crystal_uhd_any_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://56db2a4d-09ce-4ff6-a558-abb1d6727cd4.filesusr.com/ugd/003b86_3d62dd4685504c1f96af24bf3fe22648.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3574e63-c086-441a-b401-8445cd3d090f/93732776578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d1c00ff-4679-431b-87dd-a06aca489763/kemofusajeseburike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e3f8076-454f-4e88-b047-c0a2393ac0b4/7766980524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00d8a1ec-cdd0-4e37-bd05-32548e9ed4ad/one_of_us_is_lying_book_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04204963-c80a-4b2d-8c97-cbf3002882ca/el_hobbit_la_desolacin_de_smaug_personajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiviwix.onlinewebshop.net/striper_fishing_tackle_freshwater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46ce51c3-f66d-48df-85f5-14675b4ee6bf/deluvomidirigafopixanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de39c103-50e4-46da-a4b5-738db8113794/lesizepari.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_off0000e8a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A7 5800 bytes
SHA-256: e98347695c072afbddd4d46fe6aad62670a8fd920a518f78e7810ff722703ac4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC46 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 18904b64ee1d14a00de78ea37ea342a263881d4ef7be521834070ebf6aa85b98