Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d226bc05afc3020c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-08 09:59:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 61831f3b2be19444e8c01ec754a7feef SHA-1: 6a40928e05bfafa5e5a29f0f07dff953144c3e56 SHA-256: d226bc05afc3020c9417e5316c505c4683c0da93c96f2082e6980d5e9020c688
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary URLs, https://philabc.ru/pbw?utm_term=house+of+yahweh+abilene+texas, is likely part of this scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific payload.

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://philabc.ru/pbw?utm_term=house+of+yahweh+abilene+texas PDF link annotation
    • https://jipujiro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069764/xizekara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374847/normal_5feb5c29d56ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroselek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134636573/4103379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gusobukenifoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525986/gukika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fexejazawipezes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869354/zojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pipefedib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/cd8a28091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485828/normal_605464bce84c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393035/normal_605bf87f58c5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pupazugosabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868946/f07779d11cae2e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381544/normal_603917b03cfa7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488130/normal_5fe7f438e75c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofenerezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446603/kavosagesudokopujexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fafogefefotal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314601/9666286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497368/normal_6033a90e5de28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4420030/normal_60b54f68bd0cb.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/1448228c-f8cc-4aac-901a-9813f7127a14/the_alienist_book_ending_explained.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ee8d813-4619-4396-86fb-1075159723b1/ejemplos_de_operaciones_combinadas_con_fracciones_y_decimales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e75458e-e07a-4f76-a820-d207d97290dc/danby_premiere_dehumidifier_ddr5009ree_recall.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3d8c0b3-dc55-4063-b159-c508ef1bb079/56201249415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6ae54b7-62e1-4215-a893-c0357c8cd1e2/ancient_greece_map_worksheet_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1ae4429-d725-45ea-bde5-280f13b9cff7/notogupaxawemazov.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_off0001165e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165E 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 1a228a55902ccabdc94d61e59fc081965905d4913a14089c68057ff9a3b89f79
font_01_sfnt_off000127e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E9 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 6864e1551aab1f9946c0ba184b904dd3109cc9745f285b55500da346e7906ada