Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6a417834bc94046…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-05-28 22:26:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 51a875d3e36a2932a389e1e956554168 SHA-1: bec74226bbcec17f1fe662bc5f5b629560ab8dfc SHA-256: d6a417834bc940463cef4ce86951452bcb8c0e6115c1b6ef64b9cb529ca7884e
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary URL, https://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=the+basketball+diaries+movie+review, is likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=the+basketball+diaries+movie+review PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458633/normal_603af6d8ab1a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takotowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356266/nedapibalolafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453532/normal_6037b7bc98f39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463808/normal_5ffb2110830ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489241/normal_5fe28c4a80244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wunepilupizuxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857535/726515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batagokefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070859/5227239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lonopenofof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134895818/2787132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuviwezajoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379384/0b8e0e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470835/normal_604ab05981e42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392862/normal_6058de3ab33b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bivapere.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134689139/ad85efc39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460243/normal_601740b558ed8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxemazone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739829/4322029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reponobokuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135401207/xetaf-riwagefolamuso-xidexav-vitafaduwafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375698/normal_5fe2865cc6516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491159/normal_6044218d143ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujujiga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379538/5ca4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386591/normal_5ff0dce97c64a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490739/normal_60222a16a94e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4487658/normal_5fee27ec6b4e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403556/normal_600b7cbcb3969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zizusufake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134646877/joredikab.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/50dd2c30-93f7-4301-b1c3-e49617583e87/interior_angle_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/035a08f5-2a99-44db-afa2-7b771aa1f9dd/tisojefeduvu.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_off0000fdc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC6 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 8395be389ccb6add3132232c75785f6ecb676c8dc39e1044b4e209e2bec2a09c
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE7 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 07fab97f3cf9c202fd2ac7feda544605125cb307bd27c17458380b90517ebe30