Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b609bb79f956243b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-03-12 06:48:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: cccd357868acc7970f3b420f0bf27332 SHA-1: 96bc41e4dd4502ae617c1ff95be246129d9d0a83 SHA-256: b609bb79f956243b7a2fb48a98fbcb46dbf4ebade7879e329511d87e89de0690
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with the primary suspicious URL being https://pelibifir.ru/strik. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to writing a research plan, aligning with phishing tactics. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL usage suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+write+a+research+plan PDF link annotation
    • http://bibivire.mygamesonline.org/rebegipesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalllift.ru/how_to_interview_someone_for_a_storyeaspb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/surodamiz/jgVP2ii/55705446162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jatizaru/ha86gfd/nasofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/filodomazora/WgUhfja/wolf_hunting_dog_breeds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indital.fun/how_to_make_a_chicago_manual_style_bibliography39ru3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryadasert.online/the_man_in_the_high_castle_season_2_episode_8_reviewzvhzj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/koditisalupe/IACibOr/33627220871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotobajigufar.mywebcommunity.org/48419790893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366367/normal_5fe03664bcfc7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408483/normal_603b9c3da44d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit.store/antoinette_espn_reporterdkd09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mupalewefe/idgejih/vivo_assistant_app_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471971/normal_603962754d743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spain50off.info/study_of_digestion_of_starch_by_salivary_amylase_and_effect_of_ph_and_temperature_on_it_download6nphw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buwosevax/xexuminilegolakorig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolenadenibilet.rf.gd/what_is_contemporary_popular_culture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guwajip.epizy.com/frindle_book_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sorogamat/vewajesemamomupapidexibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubadoloje.epizy.com/ardent_leisure_former_ceo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pujinit/nutritional_information_baked_eggplant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zukogi/90153848868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipanokule.onlinewebshop.net/3_basic_physics_equations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gebuletesoj.rf.gd/33156812190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moxutomib.rf.gd/21526957596.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBA 4864 bytes
SHA-256: 75c2aa3f16a60e744ebc9516cc54a656a6da21d004af202876efdfc3f3091da2
font_01_sfnt_off00012e3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E3E 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 3cbb5b1e4a8d2302317ee14038bf8c42fabc59f76ed8b8d6e8feb0d84f57f308
font_02_sfnt_off0001543c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1543C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333