Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5b229d0e8ad804f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-03-20 19:01:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f9789e1446580d2c0dbab71375e24cf5 SHA-1: 08a3d30bb68ccaac786af7e077c9b81c4e149652 SHA-256: c5b229d0e8ad804fb8b0572dc579c796001ff10f0422705e56a0bc227b3931f7
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous external links, with a primary malicious URL identified as https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=cambridge+english+proficiency+masterclass+2020+pdf. The document's content and structure suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or direct users to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF's nature and the presence of external links indicate a phishing or SEO spam attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=cambridge+english+proficiency+masterclass+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/afe861cb-11f2-44ea-ade4-ffe9819f72df/dominos_gluten_free_crust_vegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e840b1bd-06f8-422b-839f-1e41028bd79a/java_version_8_update_271_build_1.8.0_271-b09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://387a498e-9551-4239-9507-3183ba214552.filesusr.com/ugd/cd403b_e62d8e9b77424d9baf446b3f8f9f762c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de2efdc5-ddea-422d-be1c-1f01a5c30f07/5099814477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/151b0ce5-6530-4877-a3f0-c77bab85658d/nabaxikometud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e667dfc9-bd12-46fa-a9fd-cfe7250b7ae0/onkyo_tx-sr333_price_in_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dumudolaba.epizy.com/46314045678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rokodejufoda.rf.gd/poremapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6ee1c1a4-93e8-4518-818c-20ef7cafa71f/mubuputuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5c156af2-4ffa-4cd1-93ea-1b02bbaa682e/excelsior_college_lpn_to_rn_program_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f64a1a0a-debf-4843-a838-a34c0cae0f4a.filesusr.com/ugd/89602e_24056e4208f14e109bcc99d623d214c0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aeb0f35d-b645-41a8-a5bc-ee115493c9bd/59463192474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://161abad2-7de2-49bb-9904-d6e2a620a662.filesusr.com/ugd/2eec94_d8177e3d28204263ad90e42f881e5adb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ffa87cf8-0aa0-4d86-91d4-9fe1f57cd10e/vegejorofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xozeb/80325098547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/winumigutam/lejuvimumewako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8eeb1f0a-0cdd-4c66-98a4-83777b49fb54.filesusr.com/ugd/64f9d2_c017b97d9682469d9881846717945f68.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dujepav/pufuwunoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c473ef0-402e-45f0-9f95-6bc7e89a6a1a.filesusr.com/ugd/5518c3_444adcb2363547c58a5704316769f60c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3874bd78-7010-485f-a5a3-b60daa948d25/bekiwugegiridunedawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9eea72ba-d37b-4e51-b4aa-d3f4ec8d1964/the_heirs_korean_movie_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc8f564f-5d45-4e55-a7f8-c4fb91832f77/is_2021_a_good_year_for_libra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/619f8dd2-3776-4968-af4a-ade06b596e3e/2000_chevy_s10_headlight_switch_wiring_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e37296b-5f92-4880-bb7b-b8160225a3d2/flysky_th9x_compatible_receivers.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_off0000e93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93C 5992 bytes
SHA-256: 520ed6d98a518d95146dad19742dad9a5c6797c1c59c2018b6634e082932caee
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD71 12612 bytes
SHA-256: e576f3b0008bbf96cf48ca6e27e134f788b024f5b3d965105ebdcc9b859390db