Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba0850de7f193a54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

153.7 KB Created: 2021-05-27 12:08:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8fc79f4d88d5f200dbb247fda2e40b13 SHA-1: 995bbba18667fb91c3020e1060b0932e613165a7 SHA-256: ba0850de7f193a54bae511eb1c3fcb1128ffee708e10d6b8548b4eaa4b660343
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one prominent URL pointing to 'baarspo.ru' and including a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting a phishing lure related to 'animal ecology book pdf'. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for multiple links, further supporting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and present malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=animal+ecology+book+pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415524/normal_5ffe5aedaebfb.pdf
    • https://dozetiwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856451/2829996.pdf
    • https://buvowanux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134685119/kileluvelobisol_wogezagokala_batenufuzu.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374536/normal_5ffba4501f0d5.pdf
    • https://xobisejuzato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694252/3f1912.pdf
    • https://kotutoxegaru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695780/8352798.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485821/normal_60329d17aa75e.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481539/normal_5fe373b931075.pdf
    • https://bepupoxusiboma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134847186/a68eab1907b0d9f.pdf
    • https://sidatenut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349940/1115814.pdf
    • https://kedifekutijita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713117/likojavegopevugadepe.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416495/normal_605c70f72236c.pdf
    • https://jurozujuzofu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134875655/9839845.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499299/normal_606891b3de50a.pdf
    • https://gazodajatara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712558/devaxemap.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02df0c48-cd0a-4c80-9bbf-2f1e0f87c607/chick_fil_a_8_nuggets_nutrition_facts.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6539027c-5917-4443-85a9-907a602c0713/8449957100.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b054fb1-729d-4f1b-96ab-b7e00d318bfe/51151350760.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00021806.bin
950b137a298f889b0008be548fa17ccc3b12062d48f20f6968f4150525da6139
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21806 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00022ab2.bin
1708699ea6ffec6e86926a8c47affdec836337450983bf863c7839213c4c8ea8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22AB2 14140 bytes