Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b57ba314f861223c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-04-27 14:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 02b1bf7604a136458320cea94456ca17 SHA-1: b168a7bd16b35c1a1fef458d193ce8bb44b02183 SHA-256: b57ba314f861223c6bbf20483f6f55f8049cc3d50c35c6989842b4f3ef2f3223
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. One prominent URL, https://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=relative+pronouns+powerpoint+presentation, is directly embedded and likely serves as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=relative+pronouns+powerpoint+presentation PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/folamudoj/bBNX9jc/college_football_scores_live_now.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xixumobun/dxjimhc/gangstar_city_modern_gun_strike_3d_fps_shooters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baruduwege/Zhijehj/zotamowawixalunabafaxujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sexifirume/gu8MNjf/antventor_point_and_click_puzzle_adventure_apk_obb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/semegopo/c2ifdii/seahawks_packers_game_time_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/romumoxoleno/ihgeroi/ey_private_equity_capital_briefing_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/novitovikor/ideOih6/cute_emoji_wallpapers_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzufaseba/jgis7hb/best_vegan_red_velvet_cupcake_recipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ranemagesoga/smzhdjj/87221385485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/birenejar/31jicia/tokaido_road_hiroshige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/simujix/trigonometric_substitution_integrals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d85b1738-a471-4043-b59e-116b2bb794a3.filesusr.com/ugd/97927e_931e2a0d58ca4203a2e47ddfc3bb2a21.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f9c81679-ddb1-4746-ab40-32673edc426c.filesusr.com/ugd/2eff39_c7d19a24518a4594a502819210803752.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d4cd3b7-91e9-43ac-92b9-205473f1e50d.filesusr.com/ugd/28146e_a63c247ea9134ef2897c389fd774835f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://76a725e8-946c-4ae9-9249-cda469d35108.filesusr.com/ugd/83c8cc_41bf85e514624038b4aa345de6f1e725.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99516632-72ce-40f3-a9a1-a01c91361c65.filesusr.com/ugd/e42c35_a1d64fc97779469297bfcdcb2e33ffd4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/purawuma/android_emulator_for_developers_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://113c517c-d7b0-4b36-99d7-6722bcb7ef36.filesusr.com/ugd/8e66a5_7058ee2881564f21b618b082fc9b8dba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef785157-76ad-4bf6-a823-0a001ce1e9fb/sodastream_carbonator_cost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b217812-977b-46b7-abef-2220e140fec4/zijiwexowilatebitanogotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/646706c5-bf64-4ca8-ac39-93f4a78509c9/fenirosizurijuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0f4267a5-27df-427f-b7ff-de3c6d4a4cd0.filesusr.com/ugd/9e4921_4edd1f41d2e34d8682b12fe3e970bff6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1cf095b7-1d29-4152-b82c-7733cf7ba0c7.filesusr.com/ugd/c1de29_6963cef3935a4693a6d16c5ce8f867cf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e895b35-4746-45ec-8303-12e628039e0a/how_to_reduce_belly_fat_with_workout.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebbb41b5-b8b7-4bfc-9e1b-23e79ad93844.filesusr.com/ugd/5eba67_5a118c0affa644bebdf347dc3003d098.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_off00010d47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D47 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 50ac7d7807d3c737639fabc67a3e2b90def5a0c8bee9d320b3c3185043454175
font_01_sfnt_off00011e54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E54 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 09ad55a005155692353e112fdab4deea328fa6d6b4cc3a1d2ee0e6e5167190ee