Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a68b0b9909bb7f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-04-18 11:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 89beac1fc13268c1d4eea5e59aa46f21 SHA-1: 23f68edf896e6cbab9d350a87e9a7416ba7d9826 SHA-256: a68b0b9909bb7f9b8ce97a56d0d6c274d47d627380eb2c98545c949769c8889c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely contributes to the malicious functionality by redirecting users to these external sites. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a PDF document as a lure to drive traffic to potentially harmful web content.

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=dorian+gray+exterior+house+paint PDF link annotation
    • http://skout.tech/diabetic_foot_ulcer_guideline_malaysia2zs5q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zejewovelopitut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813539/5236754b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komamizidunip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437982/bakulesozelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fegajasun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502742/e923bac236683b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijogukovope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379832/tavekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonevagewalilu.medianewsonline.com/84671783914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detopeda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305225/6784765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-ita.fun/dekalb_tech_collegeu7igz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tixanesel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234664/kirarumoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertitribe.store/kinetic_and_potential_energy_worksheet_answer_keyeko5n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pikejofopon.mypressonline.com/zupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biggymstoe.com/aqa_a_level_biology_specimen_2014_paper_3_mark_schemet2sr6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabopoxele.getenjoyment.net/28486979515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://ddb1515c-011f-4d6c-9a6c-b305a2039a85.filesusr.com/ugd/477ac5_6cbcbbc17390415dbf78ff8634c782db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://43cb2d18-1589-43a7-b1c5-fe1278e1c76d.filesusr.com/ugd/370b54_7b7f614ff4264e81abe76f79e2972caf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a208a2de-cee2-48c2-86e3-c620a022946d.filesusr.com/ugd/dda32d_54abd16447314414bd76c8bc65e37f63.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4c72699b-aa2e-4dc8-8bd5-1a54e8f938a6.filesusr.com/ugd/f3cb45_d74d7025b42843e1a049b0464f8607c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4abf464d-34d5-4c80-8de5-e64f30e04530.filesusr.com/ugd/8b3eb5_61b6cc7052ae4d0d9d70b8a5af25a2cc.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CD 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 6193f0529a862c2ddfb6d58d8362a4017d43d68ff09fcaf0be2d69b4e84e1e49
font_01_sfnt_off0000f72c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72C 10824 bytes
SHA-256: f9729b1faf8fc1c7a4d6b0761bc5e70729adf1d50671d4f4092c4d0eab678e58
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333