Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b851942b679f05aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-03-26 07:35:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 6b18cb40d7535edad73742e27c4fb2b0 SHA-1: a60c0c1764c386f135504eab12142cfc0e3c61df SHA-256: b851942b679f05aabe421144056171e49aa886ffe2114a7c4b5262804c8ccade
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links to disposable domains, a technique commonly used to host phishing pages or distribute malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate this malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://druttle.ru/strik?utm_term=what+does+dr+jekyll+and+mr+hyde+represent PDF link annotation
    • http://reduslim-ordina.site/prozac_nation_librocz6j5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysteps.online/linear_algebra_college_course_onlinejhzrt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nisugewameru/PcbhfVy/laxed_siren_beat_ringtone_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nezerozara/bjgWXjh/jovetepuvekenovodopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetymirrors.xyz/75959910731t3tj6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tetaxekumipi/UpgchfK/92101605589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://12c9c681-cafc-4f88-93da-cb6f471fd49a.filesusr.com/ugd/f09a9d_6022a09acd124acdb50e3f9ed6e93b28.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://58eafb2e-ea74-4523-a1b2-d2e0fe9bfe54.filesusr.com/ugd/466fa0_a570b9064390478884a41bc99d15d3f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ff4d9611-e7ea-45f2-85d3-f0b464ef817f.filesusr.com/ugd/48f461_67ace67c8f174dd5b2d92cc8b00a5d1a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd27c44a-b8f5-4dad-9bf0-34d9364e50af/66302100016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d67926d6-99fe-48a4-938f-95006fdf2de6.filesusr.com/ugd/21d82e_d9f27df6afa64e0291f557ad8807151a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/poresi/litotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9337172c-1312-4e5a-924b-f1437f4f7883/tizegafigexigusegimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4cb0b05c-3446-494e-a50a-098d42c270dc/arcsoft_showbiz_capture_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1036d318-9451-406c-aa98-9b2184141039/fimaduraguzudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://43cb2d18-1589-43a7-b1c5-fe1278e1c76d.filesusr.com/ugd/370b54_f42aabbcde714967b4a229544f464b7f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xakajoziwibi/81122493852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/resabomibogodaw/kahlil_gibran_il_profeta_matrimonio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c30c675f-ebca-4612-9f65-1194969382ea/why_is_technical_writing_important_for_engineers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/891c88e3-5274-4642-8703-86411aa2cb09/58991747737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ca2c80f-f241-4c7f-b678-eef28a9ee1e2/months_of_the_year_activities_ks2.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_off00012283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12283 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 01621291c866d21835e8e1d9196b1264a6bea1a7192dea9ff964270115e4103f
font_01_sfnt_off000134f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F9 11820 bytes
SHA-256: f6f7e75159002424a863b58fc892827d36a9a7184b40ebcaf06e24e8681c6239