Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae840a63c8c7f165…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-06-08 22:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ea1c858e247dd064148be1f7fa5fc18e SHA-1: 09af2c4c0a4e9a8f269f916d63265abfbc7ca875 SHA-256: ae840a63c8c7f165e9054a8b698374048c821a8a06862388fbfb007934f15ab6
226 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. The document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute payloads. The presence of the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scanners. The embedded URL 'https://inwebjor.ru/pbw?utm_term=android+10+pubg+lite+hack' is likely the initial lure for the malicious download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/pbw?utm_term=android+10+pubg+lite+hack PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452834/normal_605c97a827dfb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369318/normal_603f212d16b2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molesomux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681378/zevufoxelusozipani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392191/normal_60beaeca116b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linepofikoleku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134492010/vaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipekisurular.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453387/wokidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madumowa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710776/lisefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadafemuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134480681/kuruliwisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuwuxegizeduki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695805/tokaluniruxipagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zoririlebo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144741219/85034076316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wezenibafasi.pbworks.com/f/joxusigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pefumugat.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144595734/xazinasokapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuresasadox.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144745470/operations_management_sustainability_and_supply_chain_management_12th_edition_solution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xumamiz.pbworks.com/f/wupufugerixelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deduxofevit.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144691968/wgu_c206_task_1_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pewudomame.pbworks.com/f/manualidades_de_reciclaje_de_carton_paso_a_paso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xadobodit.pbworks.com/f/28810222100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejulagimu.pbworks.com/f/zudisojofasumalawebobix.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_off00012a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A28 5544 bytes
SHA-256: f368a37a36cd971b6e29e745f9cd77868c94bccb504c784d05f38212b62cecb5
font_01_sfnt_off00013cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CFD 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 08ad35a6dde16d8a55d5ccbe1316b56345d3d2537deb3ff7555b7e919491075d