Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b90ba0b70dd7000d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-05-08 14:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 486e092ce5f525ebc5018efa3e898979 SHA-1: 4e6471571e11d58c7a6d54ba4e4e274464528538 SHA-256: b90ba0b70dd7000d5845760b3561c239987d586c69cc7abb82d4c8518660e5ac
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URI heuristics point towards the use of JavaScript for redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=fallout+4+xp+mod+xbox+one PDF link annotation
    • https://bomobokoluv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437025/6222263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381737/normal_60412bce11502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374980/normal_603953bdb596b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385887/normal_60466b4dd71d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392853/normal_5ffb447d62ee8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472206/normal_60262918b384d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vunufagedumuved.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740761/3867916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4502493/normal_60491a26a4afb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370777/normal_606898ed6826d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de0a7f07-b643-402d-8daa-2207384a0954/5260146215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27475d5a-2981-497d-8cd5-0c310ef10f8b.filesusr.com/ugd/9cb927_e57cc7d15aa34ea792c15dd060f01857.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c03439ef-6557-4199-865e-586791a52b6c.filesusr.com/ugd/6bb4a2_a0d7f1efaea7478b879e9c0c25a9b400.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7888d1dd-5e87-4c6c-b60b-4bc03e5a4b92/cuantos_cm_son_5_5_pulgadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f87ce62f-3d5d-4c42-bff3-2e7d00444551.filesusr.com/ugd/72ed28_05d117a3a3df457798936fade6ed6398.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://77bc4ea4-de20-41c0-a463-a5315db628d9.filesusr.com/ugd/2c69e3_76cc74d3c49a4d29bd6f03ae7d1e1aef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73b3f487-90f5-41a6-bf44-750372f72efd.filesusr.com/ugd/39e8d0_351ec3402561456396d8d97cd36286cd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7558db3-de81-437f-8859-f05997faa798/2005_volvo_penta_5.0_gxi_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f11c4bf2-12a6-49f8-9590-07a94b689168.filesusr.com/ugd/11276f_2082a3b2817d45d89f1e722c7d530f78.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7f2467c6-0d80-4e38-8df7-27624e0b9669.filesusr.com/ugd/e19533_605209c45ac94e1a89dbc3a58eed9d54.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd783215-3826-4994-8a23-78dec248fef0/jbl_flip_2_battery_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://49884795-3b66-401c-adaf-b59e999553af.filesusr.com/ugd/8bd6c9_d1b8209555b148e19df61d80a296bd90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ad843f61-c544-48d7-8cfb-3c048b9edb46.filesusr.com/ugd/0dd9ed_40f850aeb8a84d4b827b3b4f5759b7ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://42e65457-ec34-4553-8979-78b6e302f774.filesusr.com/ugd/f1976d_fecae086c22b49a6be5c91d8edf138a1.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_off000115f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F3 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 039d86277ec51e78574c1735130fa4b612f93761d9c7bff08209b187343e58b1
font_01_sfnt_off00012737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12737 13944 bytes
SHA-256: 59ee0f0e234c532a3d96780d6a7676a94b36927788de35965d6744e14a9a9178