Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a217fff8ddb8e4cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-04-20 05:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8916ca4537c95ea95823e5f89f8fbdb3 SHA-1: b1270b78f14eff050fe320bf6b4be99e3d19cc0d SHA-256: a217fff8ddb8e4cd2c6ed06ad3d56e35cf26f8c6c9854e6fa161a0d379f9840b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm and a phishing/malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware delivery scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/strik?utm_term=beats+by+dre+solo+2+wireless+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383561/normal_604b7238dc039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424953/normal_606e60f6eae98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388413/normal_605558cdd9841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460232/normal_60184d70c6b12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490274/normal_5fdc50f5b5401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gezonawaja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134685915/ledetitobazakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457560/normal_5fccee1299887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445321/normal_60133bea2000a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410952/normal_602222f93ab7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459319/normal_603f08c8245fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofovotojoroko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878837/22b6b4d70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379722/normal_602a721b7e4b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://2ed9768e-82a7-41f7-bc91-4b86d8d7aa0f.filesusr.com/ugd/bdbd91_612955abed5f4159a72343a151e09248.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f187853a-68e6-4ed6-a420-9593b89d6738.filesusr.com/ugd/27c34a_00cacae2894a44b783c080e38a166a63.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0298dc5a-7924-4276-8279-06452a5288da.filesusr.com/ugd/b30cf0_825e9ea7d0a34f14956f475bdddcff28.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7f06b679-e14d-4525-8955-d56a7cf6f710.filesusr.com/ugd/79e5df_acf6ec10c7c843b7824ff67a60a23d6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://74bb8966-1fc2-43cb-a641-24c20f380d28.filesusr.com/ugd/84c7b5_725a97a9c44b4dd88f967419c52cd514.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f5071db7-799c-4807-8cfa-c66b012f33b1.filesusr.com/ugd/9a4546_d23fc650babd4c71ac030d20584372cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7fad2989-91b8-457c-89bc-9a0e7aeef19f.filesusr.com/ugd/b03ff3_ace8a3dea3f940b6b0511424302602b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9fc249e-2e6a-4908-9eb0-88005465a50d.filesusr.com/ugd/2530ee_e2ddd58e7e1a41e683a563f03d84a8b6.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_off0000eab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB4 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 705bbaf2d358105b4f1bfefe42984d3396b2e717625679b3eaf25a4dafac69c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5A 11504 bytes
SHA-256: 799ae3b41763863e2f543ea180a10f703d15275a55df35141d482551485b132e