Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb2feec80283d11f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-03-23 22:45:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 4dd8e2cf6e605d9284d9cfe5f2096ae1 SHA-1: 59bd45428bf6b60b06347a4643abdd7d9598d3eb SHA-256: cb2feec80283d11f9f3552c413ff27d997f42896bc276ab17360c6bf8b519428
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The primary URL, 'https://zajinet.ru/award?keyword=banking+awareness+quiz+pdf', indicates a phishing or scam lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and numerous external links strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious websites.

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://zajinet.ru/award?keyword=banking+awareness+quiz+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rodesedaded/Tjgjejg/kaiser_urgent_care_pasadena_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatemuredaxusob.22web.org/aditya_hrudayam_stotram_in_malayalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lotuwuzu/chf7qRY/lucky_block_mod_download_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4422659/normal_5fff319a62ffb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tijidewun.iblogger.org/55690150195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sadetujadufi/gfibghP/my_talking_cat_2_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xawodoze/mihigzs/88071472498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ditetona/KuMrig2/40486601596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xugikokazo/HRZhaui/mutant_alternate_human_kite_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389107/normal_5ffa9748695ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gafisasiwu/AjcjikO/blood_pressure_medications_that_start_with_l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://67a4337f-2b79-4d04-9c1d-2578c80f4945.filesusr.com/ugd/964009_6b41f3bd69e5492ca0a6eab0f9b29ccd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://minefoz.rf.gd/zafebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b3a8b944-ddec-4d17-9b53-5a1c05c66d8c.filesusr.com/ugd/314503_1c3f847eec0a4b2cb9f8c3a1c4224a95.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8458b573-1d6d-478c-912c-b10a972f31df.filesusr.com/ugd/150112_b0828e110af746ddbc33ecbc9c44481f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_5308ee2ede334e3b81229a236bb81309.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f37c3615-20b0-4e70-b1e7-2acf34113780.filesusr.com/ugd/1e533a_48c1c62e150440dd87a8212b9fbda248.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wikatefa.epizy.com/50591770176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6f847715-c85a-45d9-ae5c-7c68cc800588.filesusr.com/ugd/6e100b_9be9c6a480834bab92c011a96b5a914d.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_off0000d6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D0 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9169d30dbee62b76347572495c0892eb57716fa47566f2ab80ecd00f4743f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9ED 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 7b0bba769d496a9d002e0c5f44c3469032ac7478b697444e131137d7ee7fc9a9