Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1dbe36fd90b3b86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-04-04 05:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ff031ed1f1b5fdf892881026e72938d6 SHA-1: 019085b92600ebc67bc5414816f179e9051b171c SHA-256: c1dbe36fd90b3b869ede724443dd723b23c95d8d948d2bc4ff93d088a7fbe62d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The presence of a URL with a 'strik' path and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document's metadata and garbled body text do not provide further actionable intelligence beyond the heuristic findings.

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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=james+patterson+new+releases+november+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448992/normal_600ff9c1395d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wemigime.iblogger.org/gasavajuxasubepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382771/normal_600728cd83244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451744/normal_5ff80213be047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411701/normal_6064ad44b6943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pejubuga.iblogger.org/3721137263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486197/normal_5fcab8f8c92f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veletekuti.66ghz.com/the_giver_chapters_1-_5_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b5f62e6e-b620-4b0e-90dd-fa81fc7fb5c2.filesusr.com/ugd/18d815_aa175aae7dd949db83a00fb47f1cc75b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35057dd6-1d18-4acd-96c9-af3b7fddc7cd.filesusr.com/ugd/978dd5_dd9d8a3780ea4f799381b71727f8f3af.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://30bb9d03-04f1-4043-8ca4-b11f08dd7d37.filesusr.com/ugd/82ab19_757dad432b304c3292c211c77a025162.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6eed613e-cbae-405e-b458-9655ef9033f8.filesusr.com/ugd/e4f6f0_d2876d585e0c48918c62cd375d1ca6b1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://51364a6b-283d-4537-b9df-48522fd8faf2.filesusr.com/ugd/921180_7714d98e61814336814f3310faecbfb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://81da36f4-dec6-4bf4-836b-19ed67500659.filesusr.com/ugd/5fd5c1_c6cdbde9ec7c4779992e70afd6def11b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vodukatova.epizy.com/fixifikosaweviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://147762ec-90f0-4523-8579-43cb3cd17c82.filesusr.com/ugd/6c48b9_2c28c56129914233aeaf063dfbd37195.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b634734f-67aa-4edc-9b69-dcf7610e4690.filesusr.com/ugd/c86859_bd24944bd87249c3a61f4f29c8e5e1c4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9a1eab6f-da2d-4a41-99bb-18a59f11b130.filesusr.com/ugd/c2b690_509bd124a0c8420bb216c2565135d13c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://538d8494-0c7d-401a-b890-0485f6bc7bca.filesusr.com/ugd/29c71c_cdc572654bf342fe97bb0de650b877a5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://03ca3561-abfe-48ca-9b59-b1b2b77f8126.filesusr.com/ugd/1af49e_ad4bda5eed414f2ebcdc67b83d10aa2b.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A54 5728 bytes
SHA-256: a2b02dac1b97c389d63549b06e4229a3db5c1bbb6ab2fff1306093e706b7ccd6
font_01_sfnt_off00012dd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD8 10948 bytes
SHA-256: a9b4d2c41ecb532b29ac886f8b4b705cbf49e85dff860c27523c7410c1aa2c56