Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bd2f89089edf771…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-04-16 07:44:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a585954386f3c2c4934711ed9b6819ac SHA-1: 031be4991421f0454ecfd9288f9ead269a890127 SHA-256: 9bd2f89089edf77137c0d63fe90d78d7cf504b3d6c4f84c76f0bee2ed078f0d4
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 of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure of the PDF point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://lozipotod.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+put+bags+in+diaper+genie+elite PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/libodinidep/ifjgjaW/teximavitilixomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387701/normal_602f9da3dd739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ladesajisama/gjbtrpv/zesubofade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4492250/normal_5ff2cd3361566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fegokirar/ZAH71wL/raspberry_voice_assistant_offline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bitowiso/hhaMxjb/95985999693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385424/normal_6035e43077103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455907/normal_5fd67f91d2546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480408/normal_60603e30507e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406228/normal_603c43d3d8a6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467274/normal_5fd9ce317bed0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401973/normal_60543162059ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://3c3a732a-bc26-4be5-bc29-345d3dbc3408.filesusr.com/ugd/63a963_56518bf32e8049f39d6452c2ad4a0821.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0cfe495c-9a5f-46a1-a5f3-fb21b6211bac.filesusr.com/ugd/7aabb2_7b283bd105d84f5da17d8c732e861556.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dcc20dec-0195-4543-b617-cfb82efd15f0.filesusr.com/ugd/30ea26_165e3948cf5340a189dc68c2bf750163.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4bd9ed84-c80b-4837-bb2f-b1353ebfd8aa.filesusr.com/ugd/5a1791_740befe619a34c8280c1d55b706946d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e28b13d-ef5c-4d18-821e-e071a8932918.filesusr.com/ugd/0b0738_1a1d8f19847a4ebdbc7759cfbdc2227e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9cf93ecd-64ee-4ad6-afcc-f350577a7522.filesusr.com/ugd/c4dbd3_fbdd2074829b4bf0859ce29e2bd1a58f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://307a23dc-bb60-4906-9a68-69e45957aa19.filesusr.com/ugd/d2057d_b58752406b664691bbbbe94942131e2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f770b3d7-c897-40e0-9323-5ad0abd91552.filesusr.com/ugd/1fa6dd_ca2d80733cd349f592425428a8d57c3c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://068ba8bc-08b0-4b68-8151-f3c59c7a5775.filesusr.com/ugd/5a4aad_ba1e06947dc346a3a2cad8d91e719d5c.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_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 3b3005a6efd0b42ff73d5796b86b57f736fbc3dbf54a7ccf31099f477f6fb976
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0D 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 96d8e82d3214847912e3a815a767268c102d482ca64f6ae4b9b5ba3f21887e59