Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9cbf2492bd4a483…

MALICIOUS

PDF

157.2 KB Created: 2021-03-31 01:21:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bdd007771ff2c3db939e899fea90c970 SHA-1: d42d72311e95864f9045eff85cfc8face87e6b91 SHA-256: b9cbf2492bd4a48337fdef5a7212d11a01b76d710b328227c48118ed24f4e70c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The document body, though partially obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Penguin English books pdf'. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains, which are likely used to host phishing content or further malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=penguin+english+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alexandreablog.com/15074429591g9y0q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artyom.guru/55333361975pul1r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nukusigemug/hd7ciaV/pabexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartradiobf.ru/xewajuvdu08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367643/normal_600fe5988e44b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484097/normal_601fdfe66ec0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cookwellbakewell.com/zuxeviladunagonezijamesodg2l27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofosalamo/47sgfhg/wolf_girl_anime_base.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvetikemo.66ghz.com/academic_performance_of_athletes_in_the_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidzadva.xyz/zudomasogurawosetimozitqt7qf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413982/normal_5fcf52d12f13d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4406516/normal_6004cb7e2aa9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/runetonorox/0heFid7/onedrive_sign_in_spinning.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d76c5eb9-e658-4293-b8a5-a05e103450a8/11954100577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://171e2b11-24ea-4535-acac-f971ec821c4b.filesusr.com/ugd/a07927_edb850f7590f4bd586265040eb2d9e6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d38713d8-f9e0-49bf-8e72-3f46774ce551.filesusr.com/ugd/b3faf5_09f12b6bc5e54cafaef23b692c31a9b9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://70fbc5f3-53e4-4072-9ff7-a5862d19847b.filesusr.com/ugd/bb3bf9_bd451ea80034441a8dd9dcc3e363f259.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11d11032-1e48-436f-8d5d-e22a94b7eb0a/16102162640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77732ccb-ac3d-4d66-9332-30a4ce5d44a3/xividumumigigito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://widitedofirok.rf.gd/70286574164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xalanijowule.rf.gd/retol.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00021586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21586 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 6152ddf94d78b0cdca063fc8c5b99de5cecb5ad43ac00cbc5a00453a55e13811
font_01_sfnt_off00022666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22666 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_02_sfnt_off00022ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22EF4 11632 bytes
SHA-256: 173aa246113cc7f656195f7cb39b263200e7b5b6bc56da677e552ab238645fe5
font_03_sfnt_off0002561d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2561D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34