Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b0149d660f6c1dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-03-29 00:15:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: b8e30859278047f42cf0a60bd5d532e8 SHA-1: 0d32729a52dad385c53e2a9f1bef4b60572e55dc SHA-256: 9b0149d660f6c1dcd3f3454ed9f1160cde4d35f4f8381e3d11b920633f310ea7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, indicating it functions as a link farm. Several heuristics, including PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM, confirm this behavior. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or to distribute further malware. The primary IOC is the external URL used in the link farm.

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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=primary+mathematics+3a+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tobazoduto.22web.org/jefunanufolokivikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370303/normal_6035eb6be98ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417049/normal_6043421581624.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/c01890bb-51f6-4303-bea7-cd465938e26c/how_to_fix_samsung_washer_stuck_on_spin_cycle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52a72965-a6d2-471e-b66a-59a59a4d663b.filesusr.com/ugd/e643da_a715d1824c9f4bc8bd4d1d9bccf4e697.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dutataratoboruj.rf.gd/10722202146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/794ad2c1-b76c-43c7-ae1d-78cab88c49e8/jopupagomane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5e024257-ca51-40df-b6b5-a3104c7b7124.filesusr.com/ugd/97368a_efe150d720f24a7dadbb3aec7688646e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f045a45b-c256-443d-93d8-876e55d67606/is_family_feud_fixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c155800-b4d5-429e-a410-f8001643e70f/xopunulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab60d57a-1f92-408f-9079-0b325776b613.filesusr.com/ugd/724fb5_b00f6086771d48fcb53be73ec2d097ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cee4a208-09ac-40e0-983f-4c2cc776acbe.filesusr.com/ugd/5ed537_da89cbb42630444387f2468c46816ef6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nologivarikej.epizy.com/instrumentos_y_tecnicas_de_recoleccion_de_informacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://89f68ddc-9f98-4e60-8afa-3e0ca6603e9e.filesusr.com/ugd/4725f1_d9f0489003db4f21b5011d1893f75509.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9ef77391-fdd1-48d8-ba15-364b07375333.filesusr.com/ugd/ebefdf_9ef295075faf4506858cee379102e00d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db4fbd50-c0cd-4a7c-b435-35872e6ad58f/sawedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f18f0bcd-5805-4607-a211-5fddbb0086eb/barska_safe_battery_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4eff3ec4-d147-45d1-be73-876d9e1d0019.filesusr.com/ugd/efb3f0_1e715296d0244f849a53ab6b0ffd57a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65a08e98-9fc5-46f4-8301-f1c12b6b2469/what_is_the_best_stock_trading_site_for_beginners.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_off0000f988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF988 5628 bytes
SHA-256: d5b7cd117961728b25d2fd087d4ad4833c08d950281068b2734b47b1096627d0
font_01_sfnt_off00010c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C89 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 76bec6fd919a72a9bcc0cdbcce6b098f3fac16093faee9cfbadb236941390cab