Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db4ea7d10077770c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-03-28 00:24:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: ab8c6cc94dfc1b689fbcff9dd1941983 SHA-1: 7a9f29a9369da29ef9e68c9cf07fb9331f97e7ba SHA-256: db4ea7d10077770c1e5a565631583a495b4ce4b9589c46c505993e22c7334f10
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary URL, 'https://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=ias+zoology+notes+pdf', is presented as academic notes to entice users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a malicious site for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=ias+zoology+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500882/normal_6056635a0049d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xapewiwud/4jFibib/head_horse_horror_game_mod_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vapatibu/Zsgfgjh/zanusibakema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500417/normal_605580eeed350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fovuxugo/2jfib24/top_alternative_songs_2020_billboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/romilononove/Bkpvtgh/kotovipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369646/normal_60039301f0778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388046/normal_6016f266bd51c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sowojusawepu/ibVyhgo/crash_drive_2_hack_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jukelifawap/p8kTljg/33992035278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moturalogupe/ljbiaj4/rog_crosshair_viii_dark_hero_x570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d24544a-a521-48ab-b7d0-3723f865d43b/blackberry_classic_q20_price_in_sri_lanka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/413ef34e-b474-4316-b964-e557f27b332e/xolobutupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/daraniwekamidir/how_much_weight_can_a_dodge_durango_tow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://006b50d4-ad2a-4261-8279-34542eb0d7b0.filesusr.com/ugd/a640e9_fe0365df6e2643d9985606793f4b5546.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viregujipowuru/buwodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e028ba52-6c86-493e-86b7-fecf7cd1c3eb.filesusr.com/ugd/bcb9fd_4642cde7fab04f9d90db889d9f259cf9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43aac1ea-5bc3-4a4e-a83c-3402942dad93/what_are_some_examples_of_higher_order_thinking_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d56a38bf-d62e-453c-9b5b-5b2fe88aea46.filesusr.com/ugd/359e64_32ab71b069214972a8d47221a6f34317.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2493f64a-2c0d-49b4-b02d-fab00b64b51b/riwabeniroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a121017b-3fb3-450c-9156-48dd71a9bf80.filesusr.com/ugd/07625c_205a495b3a794a3a9d44a5414c6cdbbc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44eeb0f0-4dc9-4d8b-b3fd-cc7ace98e90e.filesusr.com/ugd/a083a1_c30cd1cd3d9e42468275d67b61d56e92.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/797f0f1e-8277-4458-b0d5-69d9d40aaa20/safe_haven_law_texas_age_limit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fevobelijogal/best_free_wordpress_templates_for_business.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA1 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 8c0501a90221e529aacc19924254a9e9f85e738eab15256439dd230080dda58e
font_01_sfnt_off0001117e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117E 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 91a078b4f7c52839b361e6c99ac73e795a80074c12440e7bbbc129ff1f3bb4d2
font_02_sfnt_off0001367d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367D 9944 bytes
SHA-256: d31259a0cc0d37071c08170fc7cf566af979e9ab63e34e7bc5e0ba13736d3b30