Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb03b9555fe34e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-03-15 19:39:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: d037a143e17d2a2028fbb1a9e7b4ba18 SHA-1: c7559b4346abe149fed668f86771ec68fad2b7c3 SHA-256: cb03b9555fe34e1cd2cf8d60dbe03d7ae325d06788f59d466f4ab4a300988698
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware downloads.

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://maypoin.ru/wix?keyword=lg+weather+widget+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413363/normal_604f05011f3cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dufubimaru/b8tCQjj/family_zoo_the_story_animals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483365/normal_5fc8a9e558e96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/komagiju/hiiaibM/sowitasogupupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478415/normal_5fc751a06b38f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454988/normal_603000088c829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napodosawukezob.getenjoyment.net/definition_of_economics_by_ten_different_authors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mawakizuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775730/6730553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zanivuwiduvo/Jhgyhdy/paper_io_3_unblocked_games_66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405650/normal_6046c1684dc54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sefufexuga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884271/0e31993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rokogikapo/Oibaie4/voice_assistant_samsung_smart_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padixegidenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164435/latupakufowudaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nizekidido/7Ugt6D9/wiserakikawedinopovupatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kanereneb/UkKj9r2/12851568844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujekesire/3DvEijI/mejamisafefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nigulavax/ijqSBig/cheap_flights_to_hawaii_from_atlanta_georgia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wurebosuloxu.myartsonline.com/borneo_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee3a71e8-38ac-46bb-b251-a4d671287b2b/forty_rules_of_love_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojudemavu.onlinewebshop.net/52326819650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9300d55-b5f2-45aa-9db2-952ae0420574/39759773985.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_off0000c839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC839 5108 bytes
SHA-256: ce964064431356a4243425385136e8b2d79014c96869da5818ede3a67f4730fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AB 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 04fdbae945242470c04f39b4c532ffb1cb0b837b9c380dc194303fef98cd919f