Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b18be0285bbb7da5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-03-27 18:58:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 6897bea3fc00e0c534da322963afcf43 SHA-1: be3bf225118278cc07b90cee400a27004d15635e SHA-256: b18be0285bbb7da58ed7a3c67fa2513c7cd933bf043701d7da133793676f263d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm, with one primary URL pointing to a suspicious domain. Heuristics indicate this is a phishing or malware distribution attempt, further supported by ClamAV detection and ML classification. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=radius+bone+anatomy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459463/normal_601f77f35ac4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410462/normal_5fe3db0c538d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gabamulijawe/ejhghkT/birdman_net_worth_2012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familyit.info/superdry_ladies_jacket_size_guidep3dwx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445737/normal_605646e17acad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389797/normal_60186894061f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470679/normal_601eb6adca18b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artrosil.xyz/dorenalipepefojamezajp6mi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jipobuxaza/fCfQehd/lol_colouring_sheets_to_print.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reawolt.online/yo_amo_los_zapatos_venta_online8l3so.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470980/normal_604a275d245f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yellownatural.space/innovators_dilemma_meaningtb8bm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4503524/normal_5feef294c33ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448713/normal_600fd354eb22d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zuxafopagad/tjbWjiD/knights_inn_corpus_christi_north.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/likafupat/3ZjdgiT/zavavefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fedukifenufu/j61jcAs/56033177184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnetfix.store/metikunurixezafareturuwj4hht.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7e073981-ad1c-4081-8dc0-76946ba36063.filesusr.com/ugd/c4f63d_3bf7ba89981741e5b97bb64432d1d47b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c7bff75e-0a19-4817-9d47-fca4cf08161b.filesusr.com/ugd/3b6424_a0720aa88c2a4aba80f444604480ca2a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bb74f61c-7045-47bf-9a7e-968101ee373e.filesusr.com/ugd/81ef4b_4ed04431c4944bb78a156bc1a0f7e31d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b01ec662-dec5-4f54-b977-8708717d6054.filesusr.com/ugd/07e02c_cbeb7dc775f546579dcc5af115d496ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://459ec6dd-5b69-4322-a182-74abbfaa0e48.filesusr.com/ugd/221eaa_c77922726d8e4be59e20666996f7e628.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b5cf7c4-d983-4e27-bd54-44d52fc9074e.filesusr.com/ugd/2f9450_5a3a60a9c0f84925860c6a0af848886f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://88bec3ce-9cdd-4818-a95b-bcf8ac49d1e7.filesusr.com/ugd/72df48_a106c392244445b9ae010bbd4ded684f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7322f44d-5cb7-45f5-8521-a79093f6ce74.filesusr.com/ugd/dd0890_4757962f99bc4cca8481a54e2542d587.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000fb0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0B 5308 bytes
SHA-256: dcfa7b4964020784a158b7f1fb18932cfcde8edc326d270c87b265e826a0a73b
font_01_sfnt_off00010d16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D16 11656 bytes
SHA-256: 349664846f3a67af0cab8c537ec1adab938408b1b2a3b1a548af163665f46620