Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbebaa5565be4de0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.3 KB Created: 2021-03-25 17:44:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: dd0c992ad2a333c1602913c18a260c14 SHA-1: 709a54e6ac40dd03dbb757d3f4e83e527faa632e SHA-256: bbebaa5565be4de0e968d85ad69f650c13761fe14aa5e9e5fe9210e0ccaa0cf1
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=cardiac+arrest+circular+algorithm+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://raputaluwim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606275/1676317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478664/normal_60213fda8ec2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuxavuzipirugud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012349/fugaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480162/normal_5feb683c99ae4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duxuxapuxud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135332588/956386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visimekariluvog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483525/suputababakilod-novof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481662/normal_60226b3097271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gufezonasu.iblogger.org/74970716060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375073/normal_605482f01df64.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/d113a284-0634-4c41-9679-ebd1a764a081/xidiledusuvunosojitixanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bef89f6e-6323-4b84-ad9d-a44490bfcc4f.filesusr.com/ugd/96768c_e94a3c70b5ff45849dc00973733b812c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vibodox.rf.gd/tipos_de_enlace_covalente.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cc652f91-b1ab-470c-b36f-46d838ef85b2.filesusr.com/ugd/fbccce_5d90f8754bbe4f408b87f99986855ab3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d0672d3-8ed4-40b7-8a4e-c375b1cebe62/monster_island_2017_norcutt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunozesanapi.rf.gd/wijakejavumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4095b968-4818-4518-ac19-31e69b8a8ab9/what_are_the_symptoms_of_a_bad_injector_pump.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0ffdd24b-620b-4f4d-94ef-a39da1ca20bd.filesusr.com/ugd/853ce2_22b4ef928f944951ac108ca1ff4514f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cbd1ed50-d493-439e-af40-f3a3fc31c0c5/dijuwefidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6dae0e2a-b738-4f6a-bf24-c4a6ae8ddace/world_war_z_crossplay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19862d8d-c3e5-4ee8-b2ef-16b9bf110810/30397730887.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_off0001b72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B72B 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 75da031a81622d30bd99efa1980f74973c20224067ca25ece6bf4a73fa3bf556
font_01_sfnt_off0001ca8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CA8B 11872 bytes
SHA-256: 23b8df7ad12509fd6e841c32300878d7a7b82dd8dd83c0f91898dea4b0ec458b