Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf505bacc26e089a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-05-05 10:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9c4f99d1f2b48528c922370e1d613770 SHA-1: 2c8ea4334436a834a58e093d7d655a51fcf20c82 SHA-256: bf505bacc26e089aaa5b5d112361b474c7ba24d0eb2b6f4d02fa387efa4e74f4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, with many pointing to disposable hosting services and utilizing UTM parameters, indicative of a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution, despite the lack of executable scripts. The embedded content appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=what+molecules+exhibits+hydrogen+bonding+when+dissolved+with+water PDF link annotation
    • https://guwizufim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813931/patufowoxoma-besibuworetoj-veketilusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redtea.space/revelaciones_karina_yapork38xh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378853/normal_600e799c20288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379613/normal_60689e02279e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446789/normal_6009ae4feb57e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kixumitusomu.iblogger.org/70949201410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raicen.com/xafipurimixogoboboziref1hi5o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dresdenpharma.ru/41674748508ewoax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeduwisuduxib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483356/60cbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447263/normal_602126fdd7959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447096/normal_5fffd46dc4df3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4422377/normal_5ffd987490ebf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408471/normal_5fcc02a220ed3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bekujorukop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016765/e0cacc0a9c1c13a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370764/normal_600d044eeaf38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1580f21e-fc75-4350-9669-3be8b7525729.filesusr.com/ugd/eff6cf_1a7d1010d6f44c048ebe51c78980c170.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1c54689f-8f60-44d8-8d81-b144d6ea8ada.filesusr.com/ugd/787b0a_4773e9113caa48bdbef124d546f76164.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e1e9198-0fe7-4103-8084-fdcc6befb8d5.filesusr.com/ugd/2f7815_07cd6b4b0e43484c96f843c57c6ca3d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a8a70d16-e3f0-4805-b115-4d8c62c40b57.filesusr.com/ugd/82e28d_15f59021357c4f5bbd417b2c83278c50.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2d130471-2a64-48ba-87cf-8f1e86c6acad.filesusr.com/ugd/9c43ec_297b38b5ca814bc4a0d53c0f5a501b15.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jugejojejaf.epizy.com/voboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nibewisule.epizy.com/14110319073.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_off0000fa7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA7E 5828 bytes
SHA-256: 795b785c9a636d1970b6d28ee306bca7e08293b13f791fcd6f6bca52ad7e98cd
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4B 10880 bytes
SHA-256: bd029cdf25c469ed191e3b7adc9f9f6988a9e271e459c503782d8ea7248c367c