Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0b5b1bfbaffac66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-02-21 17:22:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 25d1c9f08101b85f5da822b4e10fcdd2 SHA-1: 22437aff34e60b9a563d195519a127e69eb5bffa SHA-256: a0b5b1bfbaffac66829d3aeafcf4abe2edc011729c7b752f79b54db9d734da6f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to printer troubleshooting, a common lure for technical support scams. The presence of numerous external URLs, including those on weebly.com and s123-cdn-static.com, points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=hp+officejet+pro+8600+won%2527t+power+on PDF link annotation
    • https://vipuwajaziw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135398090/3600999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413986/normal_5fe8c725b64dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382407/normal_5fcc67f845c3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tobubetabopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134095895/xixenuxase-duxipuvowubazo-radibinujodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476601/normal_5fffc2715e503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaceabone.com/what_are_essential_linux_commandsur6kb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368751/normal_5ffd56db0e56a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379384/normal_602d86ec585c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamuwopinu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134632291/buvizajusemov-petisevene-palerap-vetozeforineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370089/normal_600e80e178779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trokot-shtorki.online/philips_air_cleaner_manualfr781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413719/normal_5fc8921496119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealslimitalia-oficial.site/tenuseselaxibogofjcbbv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mesowusiwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135975120/d2efbbe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380700/normal_5fd324f71ab4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wepusiviji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134661614/muxoluvuzok_rifuxujafat_takaxuxezozami_dojunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujutuzidip/yEpjehc/charli_d_amelio_fake_calling_and_video_call.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_6024697cbe5cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE935 5032 bytes
SHA-256: bcd74f6d943917c799c8ab54a6837bfcd1bc8f0a17e515b041da3688c5fe7efe
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6D 7040 bytes
SHA-256: 56dc2d4dbcb0926ba13ebd4c284b2fc11fee146f7cbdc8e5e7354f3562c84dd4
font_02_sfnt_off00010db1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB1 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 18cf4c4ed46d5a272c171ee5cd60c5ebc006509595c3cbe55efca28fe909a860
font_03_sfnt_off000132ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3