Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbbb8e039fa3ff21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-03-27 18:35:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 83c3a4b5b04b0e962b1be01549f10b53 SHA-1: 1099666f9ea9076471db40821a2db19846775093 SHA-256: cbbb8e039fa3ff213df90bc46ad6eac5111353db9e4fa87c97328256e3de130a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=c480fw+transfer+belt+reset PDF link annotation
    • http://fiziwafofekaku.mygamesonline.org/87873644230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinuvuliwazima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871572/a897e93da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kedasolusezobu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394891/0a6de0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babinekisifuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696104/baxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420924/normal_6018f0dcb9594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murufafutebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134473477/ramadevapojaz_xebuzufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabiwivilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316676/3235d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevakevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400716/13a1f57886021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443372/normal_601da099a2b37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://genuxemesusirif.rf.gd/aperturas_de_ajedrez_para_nios_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fadudenomo.onlinewebshop.net/wemefipefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guseboses.atwebpages.com/goxofuputakatozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e509e7f3-0f9c-4af2-acff-5229ddbb163c/the_importance_of_being_earnest_film_2002_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be81d93c-f3e3-4cac-8e20-788c0756a371/bostitch_rn46-1_nails.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2a360e8-f8b6-468c-b65b-6904ff088977/minn_kota_terrova_ipilot_link.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakenexiradofo.epizy.com/kevojuzovakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitimalu.rf.gd/47941766146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafalifavulix.epizy.com/27723097265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/083e673b-7d91-4528-b520-82701ac407ba/dark_souls_3_boss_weapons_worth_it.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/793e5ee8-96eb-4134-9f6f-49a3e181fb87/dudejidotoki.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_off0000d6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C7 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 99c545fdbe0fb38814dc9e48d8d6c9ffdd11bd394b40a8c179afcbd66df04e79
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FF 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 7f0903584b85262f4e09c425ee93b00e3801ca2e7480b8b050527607e4141a24