Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8571e1692c67cb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-03-26 01:43:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 00aac6ddf119f271a00b859a74738e00 SHA-1: 9ff954fc67724a90512b0c003584865dc22efb52 SHA-256: b8571e1692c67cb0c00650ecd3747bc7baad83e3bfcfa6942b87ea366aa8f802
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to an algorithmically generated URL, identified as malicious by heuristics. This, combined with the ML classifier and ClamAV detection, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain metadata related to its creation, not user-facing content, reinforcing the idea that the primary purpose is to redirect the user.

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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=lord+of+the+rings+book+review+common+sense+media PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461523/normal_6050194c4c733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455881/normal_5fddfb391a9ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420745/normal_5ff30953cb5fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402707/normal_6025fe148a883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487201/normal_5fd779045316b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414353/normal_601ae571a44b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avit0.cc/fortnite_installer_apk_awardd8260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemotiks.fun/kuvilemojakilexerijofibovdxmgb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480412/normal_60215d921ff04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopsupergood.site/41720120025ikqo6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.com/219655473279eik8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7605d98d-8b17-4a41-9383-f5c8d5af9bcc.filesusr.com/ugd/2bed4c_c3308a5502a94400aef92a6f50860c9e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://puvuvijafu.rf.gd/mekuxagimivuzugometuvape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50f90ea4-53dc-4664-8042-b6e3d8971a49/farak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ee60c613-3dd1-430d-b711-08e3dcbf0273.filesusr.com/ugd/19ce5d_b522b3ba5cf74641b9ae02575fe8613d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://beximor.epizy.com/13153340727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rifusurevaz.rf.gd/75049498328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://88211235-bf86-4d40-a6ec-a052db2f682e.filesusr.com/ugd/94e5ef_3313d985e99e4c899550d57ad24446ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01bb8029-45ab-42a0-bb45-a171513ff2ee/how_to_analyze_stocks_to_buy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f993087-45f6-41f4-96e5-9dcaca18fb91.filesusr.com/ugd/9a92dd_c7617c56810d4627ac71bfc338d27a1e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a9cd40a-f0d6-44d4-a143-19288280ca2b.filesusr.com/ugd/7a13df_1b73de09f1514e5c8b5b45c8ae847613.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_off0000f3e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E7 5700 bytes
SHA-256: cd6c6f69db32c13c889c390df7a9bf137c3acf4de0b06efd9c895b0fddadd326
font_01_sfnt_off00010740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10740 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 6e477f68d7619dcd045b36a524f7b565240d9c88124b046f57154daac0ada309