Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8b6ef06a446f83c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-14 01:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e674befa8449a11e61edb1365e698b9a SHA-1: d3d45b95d834cdb81c7defcd37531bbc779e626e SHA-256: b8b6ef06a446f83c2215ac75e1c039a307053d617700239505d84e338c065d9b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to link farms and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a strong likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://huntic.ru/pbw?utm_term=words+that+start+with+h+and+end+with+o PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407781/normal_6028eb92c2e36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467277/normal_5fdc44a34f36c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365600/normal_60356e5e9a654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474750/normal_602f40fc4075f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410217/normal_5fd93a78cb310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403130/normal_60bf1936be78f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372696/normal_603ba8000e0ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366369/normal_6061709483eb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407996/normal_5fe5740b3342b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4458389/normal_60b1b2f77eebd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371524/normal_5fef730f7e9cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422637/normal_602ef97b74205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449766/normal_6009f733ed316.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
    • http://vomedujel.pbworks.com/f/kukisugiwuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wikoborumun.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145272081/discord_profile_picture_for_different_servers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9316fbd6-4aea-427d-a3ae-e85a9f6dae04/46806816710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jutifakukap.pbworks.com/f/22839563957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molitutolu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144546066/what_to_play_when_bored_on_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/205fc5d4-e667-429a-923c-295a1e44575d/words_that_start_with_super_root.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xifatarege.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145105959/lexasebolinowutojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d18f1206-13e1-4452-865f-01470496dc22/what_makes_a_great_public_relations_specialist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a836b7f-03c9-463b-bb1b-c706b1a56fa0/43462674080.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_off0000dd82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD82 4776 bytes
SHA-256: 640e4033fe3ead54fe1c549ae8ae3846d13ca3ffdf160182a0fbc6b084dbd89d
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC7 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 466abfb465bd43bdb0ee06e610d2a755387706f95de7c3ef9bd872d75b2552a2
font_02_sfnt_off00011206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11206 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e