Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9935d791f9ab4187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-03-06 02:37:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: cb07c92413cb1cf1a1e62cb1eec8c495 SHA-1: cf90675cbb7cc5b20c760d49969145b37b9b6122 SHA-256: 9935d791f9ab41879484d87fb7cb2e60e53317ad151dc38f77fbd5b365986593
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The presence of a specific keyword related to medical equipment ('Philips respironics system one spare parts') indicates a targeted lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://fokemale.ru/award?keyword=philips+respironics+system+one+spare+parts PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421329/normal_6036deeba573a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495841/normal_602abff103400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457330/normal_60146d9f6da2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404733/normal_60083a19c65fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bugedosase.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712019/15cde7af7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifavebizibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040704/19ab50bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://buwomonemagup.epizy.com/metropolitan_police_report_a_hit_and_run.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6b5d12f1-3bbc-48af-9ddb-5430d2fe15e7.filesusr.com/ugd/3bf302_f426c3d9171e4fd4a30beffe539ade68.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a96990da-dd17-4b11-844c-aba2d588d1b6.filesusr.com/ugd/5e5e7b_14d4d5b7158542db94979098effa881e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sijomowekiri.epizy.com/27028369949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a44a9d9e-3ce9-422e-9b5d-83ef2d4925cb.filesusr.com/ugd/3234e9_7f418c4a378b4e7b8af25cecc64f124d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://69b3109a-7cce-4514-9193-d2106d9976ab.filesusr.com/ugd/3c2969_73cae10aeb524265a8c848c2e3d71bf7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fca5364-97a1-4441-b76e-d2c429a59218.filesusr.com/ugd/735424_fdff701454914d7ebbfa18ddcc6da20c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a52dd608-e7dd-4d50-8005-e0fd7a3896b4.filesusr.com/ugd/43d2fc_49b5d614c54147c4a7f45b0b0211b621.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0d3c4653-ec4b-4b04-9c20-59e348ba858e.filesusr.com/ugd/62200f_1ad893e0b1a141b0ac3ce48e35061a43.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0306adf0-382e-42f1-903d-71c3961c97f1.filesusr.com/ugd/7ff653_afec86b39c5b47299a36850730b7cc30.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000105a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A7 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf3993730e89bff0c93400a562828e4919863591a406215c4b83c4fc40ee0c1
font_01_sfnt_off00011772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11772 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7fa9098510abe62eb50954855655610579a3e89d95141da272afbca4a617fd