Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb1ed99bf96c2a9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-03-05 03:29:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 96fc9802143944700a11157c0ebadd7c SHA-1: c543a732d1f57a21de9f4adc056f3649abb650ff SHA-256: cb1ed99bf96c2a9ebaa97ce15a96742470ab05239e7931d3df560448f9e6664d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, with one pointing to 'nipisod.ru', suggesting a phishing or link farm attack. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly executable in this PDF context, indicates potential for malicious scripting if the PDF were to be processed by a vulnerable viewer or if it's part of a larger exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=what+is+the+molecular+weight+range+of+proteins+mcq PDF link annotation
    • http://sukutoxuwurif.mywebcommunity.org/jizarafuwonadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368468/normal_5fdd4ad13b548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://befotuke.mywebcommunity.org/what_is_biological_psychology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuniforokot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/6688544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bivuwusim/4jaSAge/another_word_for_green_beans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xonipavu/jaQv59c/84679063686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xubejuvanexog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135311054/xobewadajuf_raxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381546/normal_602783ed3ac29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410433/normal_5fcc7fd177841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fusojafiza/eidQqCL/packing_boxes_tape_and_bubble_wrap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/36b67331-dc31-4c14-9812-cb41dbe912f4/zarumimobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2560eac-cba1-47f4-98e8-7770e7a47f1c/verizon_stream_tv_remote_wont_pair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/53a1d8d6-e5d6-4af8-9f24-50010a19b585/life_fitness_x9i_elliptical_battery_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sukokovevaz.atwebpages.com/fokufiretomikivafijobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bcc31c0-0443-44ed-835c-3bdd01514047/how_to_load_staples_in_a_craftsman_staple_gun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagofij.onlinewebshop.net/are_online_guitar_lessons_effective.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pidodexogejax.myartsonline.com/importance_and_benefits_of_energy_conservation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b60772a-c80a-4ab8-a3c2-1202577d0175/5_love_languages_quiz_free_goodnet.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_off0000e275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE275 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 7588a3c00bc88bcf4057bdced4c1166f60ea7d64b4020c0279b62c87efc1247a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AA 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 3d3e1e2e3cd1b74fc0f48b2dec9019d2c8943a6b055788e4fce55ef99294fadd