Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b915144e3c7f2f68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 06:09:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a1f7557b2daaa9a73589dcad55c48781 SHA-1: 40c327251758d4795e5b5f0f13d2be12c8abeb26 SHA-256: b915144e3c7f2f68036bed625055cdd38be563595df12f4adebf48db45a8e3e6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference 'Archbishop vigano letter to president pdf', a common lure for phishing campaigns.

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://inwebjor.ru/pbw?utm_term=archbishop+vigano+letter+to+president+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dilaxala.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865885/5534170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xewezepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813550/sejagadoruxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403673/normal_5fc8de08cc907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivumujodul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608740/kotapumifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudodikakagiluz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598929/pezen_penis_sexejot_koginuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409801/normal_603914202bdd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465907/normal_606b466dc667e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479470/normal_60206f7cb7232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulumivivowusip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134667270/kesirujopolanax-sivonokaduk-wobiwexiponuvad-dajixaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawokani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135993895/1671621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366050/normal_6039c6f9f1d43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xapawijumoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379373/fikivazivededak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488806/normal_60b87b154b3a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380084/normal_601174e2f3ae4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450434/normal_60358a9856530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423431/normal_5fd18ef34cf53.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/e80849b3-3038-4c69-b40d-2596815adffd/49985369472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a0f8f65d-2e58-4af1-b748-258dc7eae7de/race_and_the_social_contract_tradition_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulixojesu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144489060/35100084404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lomubel.pbworks.com/f/leredasin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bf62f9c-fef6-4a05-964d-1d1c3d11664a/63880767140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73d283ae-89cc-4807-8652-7d3965ffd261/how_to_get_the_winning_scratch_ticket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wudiwiligis.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144567324/56813728136.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D9 5608 bytes
SHA-256: abd16601357a3c00b1e4a65f81e13897ebf545dd3164182390acef921d194d6b
font_01_sfnt_off00010cea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEA 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 57728b6808cc24bde774017bea6bb5236a6b11d62b9551949017cf7cff1e9697