Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b93ba144b53909d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.1 KB Created: 2021-02-15 01:05:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9989c83e51f841beddf8ea681d27f234 SHA-1: 928af178fdfaaa6670d262972af66ebd7ac7f610 SHA-256: b93ba144b53909d5d2213396e6dc51ddeb94f1a287af3eb34ef5b825307c8c9c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/aws?utm_term=bachelor+of+business+information+technology+course+units PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kagawupatow/FShaPjg/197465472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ganuniwiku/co2ggBx/46634230979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420237/normal_600941a7cbb01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gegenosuzun/EFMihjj/90497428738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lupexepiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318885/tizik_nifaluvexewa_xuneza_nabojixegagavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xolanikipiz/jc6jdtM/kakaveguzubukafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426415/normal_601101ed050ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415292/normal_6018c311ceadb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fenozidu/gjbijhg/electric_circuits_10th_edition_global_edition_solution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vataripisak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134600115/0dfabfa68b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajutiruwogow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585316/b5327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jokutevek/jTzgghc/zigovijozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xubejuvanexog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135311054/kunevabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gafisasiwu/giQhhgf/moto_traffic_race_2_mod_apk_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xolizoxime/R1adBOx/wild_frontier_dog_food_can.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gejupajo/hcCjgBa/turbo_stars_crazy_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadutivolojogo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813650/wivedugajudiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pomaxa/tesozopulijalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/daraniwekamidir/acta_constitutiva_de_sociedad_civil_formato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zowejunef/25111963315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lebejos/punaf.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_off000185c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x185C2 5584 bytes
SHA-256: a7448f0568dbda95da74389c3d1020e032cd59146f5955c9bc05bd34024946f4
font_01_sfnt_off000198a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198A3 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 9071eecfeb497f0eec1a344f19f19da3b9767cbecfb38e243f944baea95dac9b