Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbd426063292aba2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-03-31 00:35:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a735d1aec64fd568c7a755da1f43b257 SHA-1: 26431633c78ec8f0ab621bbb2276fa72fad0042b SHA-256: cbd426063292aba27cf3b37145a71345cb2d4747d2cfcf0d2ed0db7fefd56edd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a dictionary app, likely a lure to direct users to malicious URLs such as 'https://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=english+to+gujarati+dictionary+app+for+iphone'. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=english+to+gujarati+dictionary+app+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://copyrightsupportforlnstagram.com/jakasizewoxonijpu4c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lisakopew/d83cUqg/starting_lineup_for_tomorrow_s_race_at_daytona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crubr.space/flightpath_aviation_english_for_pilots_and_atcos_students_bookmkm2r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sezogitov/haB5igl/neurosis_definicion_y_tipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jiguluzufuwa/wXrjc50/dora_saves_the_crystal_kingdom_we_did_it.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usacreditscore.info/craftsman_3_4_hp_garage_door_opener_resetk95w4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vopokemib/hhghbkt/nidatujavidubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tamaladafa/jBvx1Ma/mhst_the_adventure_begins_full_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fuvebopeweb/hg9ijhf/41356972537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lanuniwa/ihqp0jf/disney_cars_slot_car_racing_sets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fururebinupi.epizy.com/rafavamupuxuranedekivobut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5c2cca0d-3a4e-48b0-93bf-8ac6c0c026cb.filesusr.com/ugd/271e65_bbee78c3bce44c80b7ff57d4a599acc4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e6c4f0b-3406-4274-bf8a-5be7f948d240.filesusr.com/ugd/45c6ff_2a42a07299684afab5dbb6b97ef66d70.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pubamawuxa.epizy.com/new_dj_audio_songs_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cd9ed9ec-87d1-42be-9198-0b2de6c1db4d.filesusr.com/ugd/158fb9_d1ba6914e4f540f79525d73ea572ae29.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jatotixizajud.epizy.com/43389291402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ae26bae5-b1f3-4fb2-a0ba-5d2f2d23988c.filesusr.com/ugd/aec2ea_9491958415ae4a72bf47181e8f36cd73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fofepiroxazu.epizy.com/gotomeeting_attendee_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://50c84cdf-c8d4-407e-a307-361b94491100.filesusr.com/ugd/f2656e_961c47ee05e840238a28d79e10f2dbe7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ab60d57a-1f92-408f-9079-0b325776b613.filesusr.com/ugd/724fb5_4abb3bdfe06948f78e1c89b04fad5b5d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f0f5a39-0a2f-4cdf-b4e4-40a644fad8b9.filesusr.com/ugd/2024fe_d1f2b68cc5bd40b8aad32906b65e2f2b.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_off0000de01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE01 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 17be8b4149c3828cc7e54eb3e19496ffc33985a5cb47f22d130328e322903544
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F4 10468 bytes
SHA-256: a5b9651b7964da9cacdf57c6495eb9735799e51d7dcac2cd0018c3a8d8133e55