Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2cd23edb2245bd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-03-31 11:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 1c93cd465f0f466441acafc33d15fa56 SHA-1: ace96c5ffba34456ae959bf4d2349588d34376bc SHA-256: b2cd23edb2245bd23d602b601bfdafb18707faa4009dec025dbf422fde5008db
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The PDF's structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=barber+shop+business+plan+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ragurinibobuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986244/1408266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414335/normal_5fdbded151509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503279/normal_604f7e648c70a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigakivukabor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164093/zoxisivifesidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vasegodesazu/cKDo7hg/lego_batman_dc_super_heroes_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409606/normal_6003b5e3bea5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445325/normal_603260d5e1216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukivobiwizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097020/8166210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zebimapajod/eFgdvhd/vukotaparoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miwizawi/jiifjcn/97539790240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://9c12218e-e157-4070-b33f-4467b3cb42bb.filesusr.com/ugd/0c60a0_aeb1ab876301436ca896f3f9e7067c3f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xowasosuf/guidecraft_kitchen_helper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c538924d-9290-4e35-808b-5013ecaac822.filesusr.com/ugd/047ea9_4c839692bfa043e9b9baf22826e517c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b64dd490-e5b9-492f-89ff-e398ecee904c.filesusr.com/ugd/5926b4_f9cec91ac7f0475a9209bb5f2565a6a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zoxewudunigus/where_is_the_unloader_valve_on_my_pressure_washer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://920f4c01-5fd6-4c40-8b27-b99972fecb60.filesusr.com/ugd/d63aaf_74116014995e4e1881441137f1489053.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/damerirazib/49586188280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gotenukevepunin/44401703099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lorifawuvawot/dream_interpretation_dead_snakes_everywhere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8860adff-7f0b-4cf3-a358-cdd560dff136.filesusr.com/ugd/625844_0c7943bcfe72441eadb46f9fc84c0f52.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_off00010912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10912 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 067606f59af292b45c864a78314383aec456b43dca97600fd0f3198c114c0c2b
font_01_sfnt_off00011b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B18 11756 bytes
SHA-256: 497999d3ad594d5bf475acc4360db2de61ed11d3ca1416bdf7082de563ea4e7a