Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3d013edfa6bd733…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-24 18:00:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 01e092ebcd02266f53e938d2bf811dcc SHA-1: 230634021f49d6296e36c5ee115884c13bc639f6 SHA-256: b3d013edfa6bd7333c631df17c810a7f53d59a91a21abc57d9c545c3c0205e30
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains and potentially malicious content, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URL and the document body's deceptive query suggest a lure to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+the+average+salary+for+an+auditor+in+texas PDF link annotation
    • http://aires.fun/88962828799fg8pp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piredvizhnik.com/apasl_guidelines_hepatitis_bsiqn9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezonansmusic.com/13_reasons_why_music_season_3_episode_5azlj1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramcopyrightcenter.com/aion_powerbook_7.08bg8y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagram-verifedbadge.com/how_to_use_apple_watch_for_marathonnmedx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canlisohbetim.net/wegotutebivabusqw1mg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesqpa.fun/78525440689cz2b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christinaanddavid2019.com/truck_racing_game_free_downloadtiydo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gexafozo.22web.org/54549873414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esagafow.fun/46400676353rp1bk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://fd0ef26f-7b8f-4c91-b3b2-19f7ec93487a.filesusr.com/ugd/4174bf_5080933d0d5e474bb23a2712e38c19d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05d34c7a-c8c1-4f1a-8da2-064da0bff6e2/word_game_answers_5_letters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e589d1e-e297-45f1-80a8-ef2d08506f7c/descargar_iso_27001_espaol_2013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a99f98e1-e55b-492e-b5c6-70b48241c086/how_to_write_a_discussion_for_biology_lab_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e966359d-176b-477a-9ad9-c314bea94227.filesusr.com/ugd/fa6f14_7b361fbf2ca64db898adbf8ba79fa6a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dimakadube.epizy.com/the_ugly_duckling_story_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf5f3f24-cfb9-4aec-9f01-83e6d863dc5b.filesusr.com/ugd/1f4526_80031b4abc584c69bde2578e0dbc949d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6b137298-3864-41c5-aaa3-11744000c3c2.filesusr.com/ugd/b916f4_5c7eaafbefa14120aae3b3eea6955ce7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a064a01-7123-418c-8872-ddfe974c10a5/75864503304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8aee5a66-9700-4a96-b6ac-56797908552f/93050383117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a471fd4-8ae4-4e37-9fa4-0d7980a782a6/wosetugudopivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2e53100-3544-4f50-94ba-921e358a5cf2/is_the_maze_runner_on_netflix_ireland.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jabiseritiba.epizy.com/rusodafodorenukoj.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_off0000f45a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45A 5412 bytes
SHA-256: bf358e0685f0089bf3c528295c3ed37d3e1dc11bdcbe544b849905014cecdd50
font_01_sfnt_off000106d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D7 10584 bytes
SHA-256: f686cac1165332710b9a44d25f5fee96f482999504e3f5f442c4ddf2a77b5085