Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeaba1b3e8827ef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-05-29 20:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 7b902e1d3fa6e059abdee08fae85a6dd SHA-1: ed154075aa743a7a6f65251c9946920d9a4cebb1 SHA-256: aeaba1b3e8827ef3911790085acebebc39396e0b9ddf5d68313eabd034e35363
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. The primary URL, 'https://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=seventh+day+adventist+church+fundamental+beliefs+pdf', suggests a lure to attract users searching for specific religious beliefs, likely to a phishing or malware distribution page. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=seventh+day+adventist+church+fundamental+beliefs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xelinibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739371/28575461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447433/normal_6001d627a6b16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425501/normal_6059107d99d28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498978/normal_601e14de9381c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368493/normal_603e40be8729f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494875/normal_602d476e6f042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425916/normal_6029205fdb9ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480876/normal_6054e57a1bb7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490950/normal_60130b5b33f41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389106/normal_5ff3d097ae159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366313/normal_5ff04776797ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427295/normal_6000fdde651ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479905/normal_5fca9bb9877de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481065/normal_600712f926cb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zisupozukubowad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134678668/4630823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416125/normal_5fd39346e2cbd.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/d0d0dfcd-ba1c-40cc-862a-f49e13d7b14b/what_foods_contain_gluten_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ae0a90b-48bb-4ab2-89cd-adde3f7142cf/37015185976.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000faa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA0 5800 bytes
SHA-256: 40ab269dd3b17293ffb7dc10226655e54f0bf6a73349f01b05bc0daee9ab74f4
font_01_sfnt_off00010e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E43 11416 bytes
SHA-256: 099567f3bd2547f5a12e88ae878af438b988166c42a6e6d2ebd13a19488892da
font_02_sfnt_off0001352e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352E 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e