Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab6927a7b2720926…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-01 16:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: c08b4df0c3d694fb88cbf4f94bcbb0a4 SHA-1: c13901759b3d1f4559fd65303d91c8b6fe6a2f96 SHA-256: ab6927a7b2720926cf147613810be38abf6cf9d44b6c559963ea7dc1ad342ac1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious or deceptive content, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://laborke.ru/pbw?utm_term=why+capitalism+is+better+than+socialism+reddit PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4381730/normal_5fff0619d4f71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387433/normal_60556ac382e57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubuwejazanewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585617/2b26fa9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369932/normal_6031236f7e467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481055/normal_6019d8b5b6258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480393/normal_600c669e918f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425227/normal_6056886ad3e71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415531/normal_606a6ba97ee45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476146/normal_6005d645170a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459321/normal_6035f37a9a0f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500429/normal_605c500d23af9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jejegufixi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740716/larepovawor-gagimezojononot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jesababa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144415806/convergent_vs_divergent_thinking_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a458324a-4322-4f4b-abf0-3bcdfb408be1/eine_zauberhafte_nanny_1_der_ganze_film_deutsch_kostenlos_anschauen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zikasamu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144449061/70097447001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0904c9a6-d7d2-45f5-9c30-38d674362692/horton_hears_a_who_katie_scene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77b77389-7a4d-4fb0-bfe4-074de4b4e57b/fichas_de_letras_maysculas_y_minsculas_para_imprimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb531c04-250b-4eba-8258-e2f470643bb0/67449696836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pezeliv.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144424155/71103469662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poxanoralanu.pbworks.com/f/gewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebunurivugu.pbworks.com/f/lesson_9.3_practice_b_geometry_answers.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_off0000da03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA03 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 426c0525e03fbf755f11cae8b968dc67c71b5be127fc53599434a5b730feabec
font_01_sfnt_off0000eccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCF 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 2264d6868f453931da8eef1b428603c7138050ac039076693cf7fcc186a82d1b