Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beddb4b6ceb908a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-04-20 20:09:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5adf6da2d6d389f2feb933579b716af7 SHA-1: 2945cdd93decb2d528b1fb4a32a516ce9a5250db SHA-256: beddb4b6ceb908a06d6cf3fa5ed7188a157962ccde75f036448fe50e24de7a32
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDF documents, which is indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing malware. The primary IOC is the initial URL which likely serves as a gateway to the link farm.

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/strik?utm_term=richard+tarnas+cosmos+and+psyche+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4460709/normal_6001ead6776cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370068/normal_6026da3cbcc22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majusenise.sportsontheweb.net/pipexulenuzuvatila.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/45e82a2c-15ef-4ef4-b04d-df8eb2036218/60895840691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1452a434-727a-43c5-8300-2424b8df1ec9/28045677412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xukanomarexumu/rotutiligonulugoniwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://26bfc7ce-baa4-43a1-9280-72312523cbd3.filesusr.com/ugd/5af86b_7ab319e0220a41a093cff296849726c4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/farokof/domotuxewamubefobofabodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milebulijulami.onlinewebshop.net/aviation_safety_management_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1ac5d900-0c69-4f12-8b1d-4e209472b8d2.filesusr.com/ugd/828753_94be267aabe649e6b79d0912868d3aca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://90ff81fc-98d9-4e53-96a3-aaa5c1c2042e.filesusr.com/ugd/bb5aff_39565eb7f3c54705b0415f3340f2c188.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/91988fc4-7cfe-4367-9289-7ee1e94dc28e/baldurs_gate_2_enhanced_edition_jaheira_romance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67b8cc32-57c3-4137-afde-d3c87bf9d25f/how_to_troubleshoot_a_tankless_water_heater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sawesupunozigiv.atwebpages.com/tu_eres_digno_de_gloria_danilo_montero_letra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75a4310e-27d4-4a3c-b50e-dfbe2f966ffe/list_of_spider_man_comics_in_chronological_order.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be0d6932-f963-47b9-baf1-46365b037034/gopro_hero_4_session_manual_svenska.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1f123e4-65bb-4e3d-a270-150f71a11a6f/3rd_grade_cloze_reading_passages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xilasisefi/64026535140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec451167-49e0-489e-a150-d7dc0ecf9264.filesusr.com/ugd/fe0276_e9c580d8c16343798256880a7eeafdda.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nebojemesiwi.atwebpages.com/mla_bibliography_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b2aefc2-1b5f-40a3-9ae6-29b9e9dfb8ef/can_multiple_macs_backup_to_time_capsule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lovetijif/power_wheels_barbie_cadillac_escalade_charger.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_off0000f493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF493 5664 bytes
SHA-256: 456ca679197117a4b017d5668ca0d3ee231bc9a2322f651a29f929bc8d325550
font_01_sfnt_off000107b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B6 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 0e7f14d48c10d32a563dc767d18a6320a0b81191c64b15fbda8f54d3ac7e346a