Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0b85e7a47b5642f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-03-17 20:39:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 084cf287d9a2a3502825160913738ccb SHA-1: a8219d27450afbe84d859b3c376aa1a2fc0062be SHA-256: c0b85e7a47b5642fcb821347dc308a8acb5eb964de2c6c2ee443fe3d73591b7a
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, indicating it functions as a link farm. Several heuristics, including 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM', confirm this behavior. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware via the linked sites. The primary IOCs are the external URLs found within the document.

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://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=mcent+browser+apk+mirror PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368477/normal_6008f984abd02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sunomedude/HBibS0j/treasure_hunters_series_common_sense_media.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedotomonifagax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606429/rakikekumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459621/normal_5fdac68593bec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudefenumub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135984534/35d518c5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zarejesorufo/giNr9cH/sepsis_guidelines_sofa_score.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://f459ab6e-ac57-43ce-b83a-1524846427e4.filesusr.com/ugd/938c70_4172a8a8f1e941d084fb4a16c31c35e6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6cda4dd4-8aac-43e7-8003-7c0eea9f7907.filesusr.com/ugd/34e26e_cb5e8797db2047f59dfbe5786933576a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/piradi/77542219081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tigewibejageju/23164814427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/16ea8308-c54d-4500-bca6-83338f17f1f9/does_hatchet_have_a_sequel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://67258aaf-84c5-4a88-bfd2-1aa7ddb6c27a.filesusr.com/ugd/850f07_a221e9f303e1416da20cb010c6f5ee10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ce5ad1e-6a06-4456-8f3d-8143adc438d1/cuanto_kilos_tiene_un_metro_cubico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirofopafu/free_templates_html5_css3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e195ee0f-e40e-4497-8e43-81f5b1bdfaea/math_games_for_grade_4_multiplication_and_division.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f7aedcc-401c-437f-a065-f6e92b5c4501/que_es_recoleccion_de_datos_estadistica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab25a8b3-4d80-4d4b-93a1-c1347014fa7c.filesusr.com/ugd/8d0191_1d6299ae32fb4e348d32f510991b53d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/501bbed1-8464-4988-a388-d1e251d0abfb/lodemugiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b860438a-ced3-4995-86f2-ad9a24e3f15c.filesusr.com/ugd/938eb2_49eaa16d950a4b46992d04f3c4f8561d.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cbab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBAB 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 61f6c48b08da1330d1543f3d50dc5c9091eeaedc7a2d704467468bfa7aaa9c68
font_01_sfnt_off0000dde4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE4 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 108c75395e66852e46fc18db3557151c18a11b9fef8de8cd0b3632b7654fbc4e
font_02_sfnt_off00010195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10195 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ead7fd593d7f5feef6f283420e9b55f8fa4552f107c64b0063d474dd3355abd8