Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9c7628a63513bef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-03-23 21:24:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 5aa668d8474a8015ead0910b2d13cb40 SHA-1: e6bd92b2716c5e48be97d18e34bc6ddd8105663c SHA-256: d9c7628a63513bef740e2a776638a7dbc9dde949a6a60488a39367db5d4d27cd
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm. One of the primary URLs, 'https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=alternate+exterior+angles+worksheet+pdf', is presented in a context suggesting a lure for a worksheet. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' indicates a pattern of redirecting users to pages that might solicit financial information, aligning with phishing or scam tactics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise 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/award?keyword=alternate+exterior+angles+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vuzuwul.getenjoyment.net/mowakafavisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/ChJqhfz/maxeruzigijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jizuxadif/lZ8Cjjv/velareludonojegovixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vazodowadu/whhcid6/67163466888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wikelere/sfThdib/fovuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunagutafa.getenjoyment.net/48621465225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vovopafubipu/solution_manual_fundamentals_of_communication_systems_2nd_edition_john_g._proakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/31a1359d-6bea-4efb-8cf3-2d73b8d53f04/kipixofidutuvuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a28c7dff-99e8-44d9-8621-bbdfa8ff1635/jevotubiduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ca6b24e6-01cd-4368-a310-1df05077a315.filesusr.com/ugd/11b39a_c637915d772643a08face80dbb93134c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82631ca8-277c-40a4-8928-8bcd299c09c4/printable_2nd_grade_reading_comprehension_worksheets_multiple_choice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pafexegud/43685666187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/efb0be89-b911-4c52-b9e3-2e7498ae48b5/craftsman_225_mph_electric_blower_vac_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e229dea-1f83-4be8-8cd3-388eabd4f5e3.filesusr.com/ugd/1cfe37_ea43d332afb84655a4defbf23286dda0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee6bc897-aa08-459d-b6e6-b1b1d69fcba1.filesusr.com/ugd/7ba596_1cb1bc7f916a428abc8aa2b97e814c5e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dojivewobasuval/pebejuliwuzilesinezodase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7737876a-f762-42ef-af6f-18b78abacabf.filesusr.com/ugd/9066bd_81a22e8ec544480cb169e30a441cb18e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gajabedafot/4_pics_1_word_level_269_answer_7_letters.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_off0000e9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CC 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 0496193bba365771b69fb9b0f0717db6bad6a0e3b0b59274ddb01d36ef59c204
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA2 11076 bytes
SHA-256: a0a81627c1f2f367f6d624ab90f5a81c63e1225b6391ddd84e215edb85c3df8a