Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8617a08c254c789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-03-24 22:16:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5288ca15873de2dcf66770ec3a7745db SHA-1: b0a13d4f6bedf08fe91d35b291f70d5c9f7180f6 SHA-256: b8617a08c254c7892823f03a1d899e97808f69b58987970907a4a14278b5dc8b
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • 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 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=adosphere+3+cahier+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fito4ka.xyz/razibobatogefenopamowuwhhp0i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tameenegypt.com/wilujeli1w7w1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/matikefateri/jWjfgjB/bubble_shooter_online_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/towinomer/fs7hjha/71726700505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrestling-mma.com/call_me_by_your_name_full_movie_free_subtitlesvk2tk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juxowupekabaf.mygamesonline.org/88296345691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bepotedaxus/0aHgjIu/start_page_chrome_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tevotapomow/gXjdgeA/68484057130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shothard.site/zujefejazizuniwene2mhch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamuxorap.getenjoyment.net/40748049054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://student-yurist.ru/animal_farm_chapter_4_audiobook2y0of.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libuwapuvewipev.mywebcommunity.org/28777590749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://58eafb2e-ea74-4523-a1b2-d2e0fe9bfe54.filesusr.com/ugd/466fa0_d67d8e4afe2d40d6827295a0024dd3aa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kofaxafogi.myartsonline.com/55607428471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://18b09f4e-de4d-4c1b-9fe6-be55c63b1c00.filesusr.com/ugd/cd81e9_d766400d3b6b4d689c18af6c406d5a1e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ff102949-4c65-4b7b-925c-ea9a98d885fa.filesusr.com/ugd/7a16bb_f0eadc46fc6840c39051dfdc69b212fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c78267de-509c-4cb0-9394-6b21b7876e04.filesusr.com/ugd/290ce3_b894643e2f264057b698eacb41655de5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ef57e19-9a2e-4e6f-a444-f6b59f982a39.filesusr.com/ugd/4c1554_182496160440458c942df8d36d83bd26.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6200e599-3f2f-4e3e-ab45-e6977ed7e777.filesusr.com/ugd/f8de3e_5d097582c03b4218aa1a4878d8c8a597.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e437b920-fa79-41d5-b67c-0ca059f4e77a.filesusr.com/ugd/d97c10_bb926372c63a47ff8499640d3bfb47dc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e1cf253b-b3af-4135-a675-1c3c021177f9.filesusr.com/ugd/111c46_c00245416f9447008e0f1128dfc6fca6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e5acd528-9925-4355-98ed-6c6122c9c19a.filesusr.com/ugd/49fecd_a9894563dcde48448b23c3cb14ca808c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://507d1b22-ea03-4061-a262-f79425337ca2.filesusr.com/ugd/a374b9_5ff03947bc5b4385b711205c550e47e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52468903-0e2d-47c5-babb-61e1d305d291.filesusr.com/ugd/32777b_7ac981c858754834a26ce655b0363fe3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aabf49e0-5477-4fd2-8456-a986ef8f2a87.filesusr.com/ugd/9e14ca_6827f9681cca4adeb2893783126b207f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://84bc2af4-305a-40b7-847c-8c52cb6b08d2.filesusr.com/ugd/a2e525_5dbcacb5d48b44ebb794d83864cd0b8b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e28b13d-ef5c-4d18-821e-e071a8932918.filesusr.com/ugd/0b0738_a650b9a2334b4ff5b55b9495572a4283.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_off0000ed84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED84 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2e188684a10c7b9efe6c83542b381f8a6eb3129100f207cd0c1348477bde7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBC 14552 bytes
SHA-256: 3e966c9f5868770762b713b17bd8d4f407e99ab2394ab74948fbad7623d419ac