Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abc6ee75d057a79f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-03-30 13:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7d4c781b6e8779abd62e5bb723ef588e SHA-1: e2c1cfb8001dfeb9352690c93090400dbb0d5650 SHA-256: abc6ee75d057a79f75a82ca3be51494129d6b4240aa8445f25048fd367b44e68
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of a URL like 'https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=basic+techniques+in+animal+cell+culture+pdf' indicates an attempt to associate the document with legitimate search terms to attract traffic. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this file as malicious, likely due to its structure and embedded content designed to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/award?keyword=basic+techniques+in+animal+cell+culture+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jivexine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380908/gatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vifatogiso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316440/94bdc821c15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedsbadgesforms.com/parc_de_la_villette_koolhaasqp390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fojojaroj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453509/bf952a7f6263e1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allerop.xyz/47143452097o0m27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xiwajobuxeke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134637113/raxagudajalovadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e1318bff-d970-45e2-bcea-45481503a18b.filesusr.com/ugd/75a96d_894cb4e7b22a4837bc444609c7248713.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5f98d79b-b704-4ecc-a618-200e52db7f79.filesusr.com/ugd/d1a5b7_732c9f66f88e49899dedf47e2f8a88d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5c817321-7c0c-448b-959d-deb1da9fd788.filesusr.com/ugd/19103d_62b5e6e1428043efbe06c95a1ce43c5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zurovajij/40246527527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cbdc446d-76d1-40b1-a2c7-8454a7c6aa76/zipamavezesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d64d5b41-a66a-4b78-b87f-0feaf8e9cf76.filesusr.com/ugd/cf1aed_301124c147f748dd9521622e58619331.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e8ac3c91-f061-48af-b60b-8949ce458f0f/how_to_clean_a_miller_trailer_furnace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae0910b8-8c0a-43f7-b2c4-f650d9afe81c/tujigakobakuvimoxedames.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c22db966-bef8-4c17-828a-f4196bbd72f8/xadupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6b2d4799-12fc-456d-8881-596234ac9a0a.filesusr.com/ugd/ae8ff6_54ce8d15e37443e0be62469149de2f23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0367de00-c16e-46fb-90ae-eb0bd6546235/omaker_m4_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kefefetafij/breville_bov800xl_smart_oven_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gimisorixosu/riperotoxetebofixabuzag.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_off00010151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10151 5568 bytes
SHA-256: c0d8fe29abc2fc493462fa78f86bdb051bcbf2d2b59dc6b72792c861e582565f
font_01_sfnt_off00011414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11414 10680 bytes
SHA-256: dbe570573ad1defde4920fa7ba5ccdfdfc2b754abad9c8f07e7695a69ee597a6