Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8bf37462b99acf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-09 13:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2ffa13504ab6049d2e4d562689757ba6 SHA-1: 04603010a435db679d8097d7d6f51902d97692e5 SHA-256: aa8bf37462b99acf0b7ead3a84ccd69ed48582fb6e93e336f80e1bb8dd5d4ad6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, 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, contains references to 'esl comments for adults' and is likely a lure to direct users to malicious or deceptive websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://krisoc.ru/pbw?utm_term=esl+comments+for+adults PDF link annotation
    • https://xefosujusiro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042031/zonineriwu-pidewitexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarakemutelomul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303353/dezufiru_kuvejewa_zadiwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393632/normal_60153986107f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menelaxewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362368/189182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogozugibijom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134369614/4b6c32347f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417315/normal_6036a1da17d1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369189/normal_5ff26bbfb4117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weziriditovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108838/733301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rutepoger.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509459/ratiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizomoxus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589692/6555668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379374/normal_60560ebe9e6cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380068/normal_604ef39ff2138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanevuzitikuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588875/lugejozumuzinabaxo.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/a8a9cc8a-c910-4d2c-a8e8-61bf97ac6bea/how_to_use_a_cavitation_device.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runavepekid.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144900474/bovufajijonosixokoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetuduju.pbworks.com/f/iyengar_yoga_sequence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5dd5b348-ae1f-4f1a-aaa7-1a53e4874882/43475091599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8d91d67-c360-4a58-bc33-3754aafec8b6/airtel_postpaid_bill_check_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b6dd98e-d6b9-42e5-aede-16bbd6d3dfc5/nejebituzebilakeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25836ca7-88b1-438f-8577-a45b2adb2fdd/bonang_matheba_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerobedevu.pbworks.com/f/pokemon_soul_silver_randomizer_nuzlocke_download_ita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f7e8918-1936-4223-a486-2082bb31073b/37885988819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/984e3eda-60a5-4f87-95b3-b19691b04147/62417973310.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_off0000e1eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EB 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 032786e4e736a6a77eafecc98cbb14bf25189676ac6f572a9b687e3544474341
font_01_sfnt_off0000f345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF345 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 266d85087ca84ec226aac71a76078e48b538bfdcd41fa1e7d1af1b8e607b4454