Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad9bf04c773e0e4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-13 01:34:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 29ec45b5a93ad23a2fda7f3aa6c0e97b SHA-1: 0a1f9137f217ba9904fe1090d2d4b512ec7e4d31 SHA-256: ad9bf04c773e0e4f3c87a6a14bcd757ad06356eff0650c234ff122bd933c74b1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs, with one prominent URL pointing to 'https://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=glycemic+index+chart+pdf', suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam website. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of PDF-specific malicious indicators and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://queure.ru/pbw?utm_term=glycemic+index+chart+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4426088/normal_60b07b7039c50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4504870/normal_5fe3f7c583faf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379987/normal_5fe92277ab814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499299/normal_602a4a5b855f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417983/normal_603aeac7a1954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486982/normal_6024a6e83492f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446773/normal_604721c30220b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385197/normal_601bb3b9c41d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419437/normal_5fd8a211d239b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405459/normal_5feb5d32ddae0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389108/normal_60bfbe3ce273d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476768/normal_6038330813134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lekuzax.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144587874/fifakudezunadisajepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siseraxoru.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144498726/free_mp3_music_download_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevuxowina.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144806631/beats_para_beatpad_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rixepal.pbworks.com/f/can_a_keto_diet_lower_cholesterol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watusuxipidu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145212393/how_to_make_a_portal_in_minecraft_education_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0db6b0b5-ca76-41f4-9b4a-cdeba04d8e47/troy-bilt_50_inch_deck_belt_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xelivolofuso.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145212039/vitodiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jitilabajeko.pbworks.com/f/lippen_schweigen_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eeac9582-4be2-4d6e-a980-a9191e23e007/dunkin_donuts_reduced_fat_blueberry_muffin_calories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1181e5d8-16d7-4e38-a55e-5509b1aed8e7/polk_audio_subwoofer_psw110.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_off0000f363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF363 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 678aeb07fa60da3a8db13374da9e273afe8cf15dae06fb25df34ce4264215961
font_01_sfnt_off000105b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B6 10772 bytes
SHA-256: ee3857ef471da1ebc08dbd5f41ed3694f524e75864dc2348a2ab4ecb9291ad6e