Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b24bbed851133a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.0 KB Created: 2021-05-23 19:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 2a6340b626ca87e8ccced8ef0f679582 SHA-1: d6a53e530b2538d5718a50c6059fb4e6d08c880b SHA-256: b24bbed851133a9f2802e772ac06b6c06f3997974f9bd94ceaf2a0ddfa378177
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'political sociology'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points to a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious websites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+political+sociology+nature+and+scope PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374181/normal_601729f10c5d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380084/normal_6038fb3acbbff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466173/normal_6059cf82472c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413703/normal_5fed31a9804d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xalidanazate.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136082238/rufaruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digutejuwunapon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325267/5246406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firulasimasib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969438/632ad4f56c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370267/normal_5fed2bc1ca607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393791/normal_5ff80d5b30af2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422382/normal_604fe299b04c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407302/normal_5fe456bb5975c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vazatevetag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874289/bosagopoji-zovawukotez-niviretifado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418566/normal_60158cda9347f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zeraxoxuret.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134642117/8434409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453551/normal_5fe43d1a73dbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiwirekofer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314588/sipidibope_basalebudiv_mamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lopufofogepuxal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134695200/a0bb55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xusawoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739635/timomu_sijepabobi_fovavan_powagokurixekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480749/normal_601f7940a295c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuberexuwaxif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134501439/xedelitobukikele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borirokuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437567/9112264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449627/normal_5fec054e1cc17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409396/normal_605f37c384252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379371/normal_5ff2bc1c21d1c.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/3678df4e-b4bb-4567-ab4f-087ef47d72b5/85122212840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a33ab9a5-d121-42d6-a8a0-a0006da465b9/81402511131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6e54d3b-0cae-41de-bf7b-2acf2e976e87/how_to_get_plantronics_headset_to_work_on_mac.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_off00014cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CEE 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 5388b6f951ea3c0f5dcf31c108111e5c61010d33a5faf2b58cbe482d259d35c9
font_01_sfnt_off00015f83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F83 12320 bytes
SHA-256: 0b6fdd052aa91f4a9c4111c726e78f345d19b98b287058f1aad8e63600a9287a
font_02_sfnt_off000188ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188EA 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 9210f4d56a2d0e868c92c8f3d69665b65103c4cbe8eccb0746292756ebfacc8e