Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb248c012f0feca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-05-09 18:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 193731e7a9ae8c57bd60d5e878088451 SHA-1: e6abda842781bb51b06350cce10eca5521d55707 SHA-256: bb248c012f0feca73340b776ef7fe34aba666da9171e63d521b728b97032ad21
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a significant number pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=mass+effect+andromeda+romance+options+female+ryder PDF link annotation
    • http://lipenav.mypressonline.com/rubupezexenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memexeti.66ghz.com/how_are_beta_amyloid_plaques_formed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gusebozaromurel.mypressonline.com/90261620834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jabilevij.mypressonline.com/geporuxojaxavepuwepotukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mumolazesinidix.getenjoyment.net/8522912180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://466f9527-ada3-48b4-ac0c-4ba5546996ca.filesusr.com/ugd/a4b6b9_134f249711d34d45ace7fbb7eaf9ef4b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7c9e9c40-2b96-4f88-8065-b5ff5e495659.filesusr.com/ugd/3bfcae_6a0e526fe7a34099bcf564c30772ea43.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c0e8410b-c394-4b36-8083-179878a46647.filesusr.com/ugd/d4b1dc_488ab8fdb8974903aa498a61767bcd63.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16da7b-5b4f-4122-a3c4-5c88c9d97cf7.filesusr.com/ugd/83f04e_3a490671c07f4aa4bc1ad79b8c2a6ace.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d3dd75b0-514a-4dbf-a1f7-973a5b421fb1.filesusr.com/ugd/5b46ec_fbefefde8e1941f49ccd19be2368230e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://012a8781-80b6-4d33-8f63-56d56ef93f15.filesusr.com/ugd/6d3794_1abe1fae1d214ff18a0f5cc2b526c56e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b8f7bc2e-5f90-466c-a76c-b8215bfdb3ae.filesusr.com/ugd/9717d9_9a0363c6c5c7498b827901725e5a2f92.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tebalakafepikob.rf.gd/jawuwasotufepotageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rupesujutiwu.myartsonline.com/24622631883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujawokasafu.onlinewebshop.net/absceso_hepatico_cirugia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a581e706-3bf6-41fb-8978-ad4d4077590d.filesusr.com/ugd/afbe6b_d3e5337dd2db4939bba05c91b59f092a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c63ca81c-6df4-4ec3-bc2e-8508f29a6879.filesusr.com/ugd/d48fe3_2bab8a6ddbc84663a52e86f142508cd0.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f35b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35B 5408 bytes
SHA-256: b742a6ea93d66b1c05357c86df3df9a7172e8f6f3d0bb5a1acd3301a949469ae
font_01_sfnt_off000105b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B4 2252 bytes
SHA-256: aeee9b2fd577c594ede074a7e3493832e024aab8d381a7c1d16527c2e435dd06
font_02_sfnt_off00010ff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF2 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 509afebb19fc60ce9fd19f46ced0cb577d5e1d95b3fa8e303f8be235bbd7ae4d