Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8af013e0a437e39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-04-30 00:12:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 3b9cdcd6e4f7397e327e37d93197b4bf SHA-1: cad3871f17ac5af5560e63540ad30f9d3e74d9bd SHA-256: b8af013e0a437e396567bd04fe92f32e10ed0a2db45db0c672fd35eac6b8b69d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=skyrim+script+extender+how+to+use PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401976/normal_605157cc75470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinomufe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134706409/fudegavokiwodidiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365621/normal_5fe51cfbe5d30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388614/normal_6050436ebc520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485004/normal_606273aebb804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibefaxad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134594794/b1dd7a33898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toxupuxuforiri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135966975/1011854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togitarusufojir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681229/13b0f93b482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasaxedunup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453111/sefixelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402032/normal_5ff0b426d42ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476593/normal_5feb014ab7ba7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370762/normal_600297369a7ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483104/normal_5fd86b9dad7c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393358/normal_60013a267fe61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8ee4d174-735f-4cd7-9396-c3a65dbcc337.filesusr.com/ugd/5ac313_8d1bb13f81bf4f7cafc757f5c2b7fd78.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46667bf7-decc-4b16-a8ea-f18c9fd54625/maya_angelou_accomplishments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03a9bd77-f8a9-45f0-9863-ef48c1e1fba6/learn_amazon_web_services_in_a_month_of_lunches_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f78a7b13-e75c-4ddc-9f3c-03cd83736f6c.filesusr.com/ugd/90c53f_ae9862e01e494daebc7d98d5475bb273.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://87c8fc71-818b-4167-bf0d-2ac3bc49ffd1.filesusr.com/ugd/f9d4cd_8b022fc898294f61a2576172b7f84181.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7691ef74-6bac-4845-bedd-6a0031db1fa5/naming_ionic_and_molecular_compounds_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f64a1a0a-debf-4843-a838-a34c0cae0f4a.filesusr.com/ugd/89602e_37f0c3c0bd9943ed81f75abb2fe6ac53.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45ed8376-e832-497f-ab20-0a31924dc5db.filesusr.com/ugd/4b7290_6c7c117d18ee41968c9a4282e9500f39.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6754c94d-8795-460a-880d-d127bb37d4d4.filesusr.com/ugd/2383dc_63249406d1e44612b9e60ef42902fdd5.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_off000111f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F2 5500 bytes
SHA-256: ef0e8e81b5dae0e4329d835626e6f114663799b82a0627875cdd647f7d5556b9
font_01_sfnt_off000124a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A2 10952 bytes
SHA-256: a9c7eeac545130178fae6f94cbbc59d7504085a3be7771fd865c6bcb8c672c32