Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e89b5619ed96adb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-06 21:22:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 2d335ba72e681c0249da423aa54c3080 SHA-1: 2a3cc9fdadf1f4e2f346f8093be49c2c11d781bd SHA-256: e89b5619ed96adb23175b8dffdfdebd7e143e29de6c00f01f9e915f8ea8b21fc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO spam. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious or spam content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=do+weak+electrolytes+dissolve+in+water PDF link annotation
    • http://safilow.iblogger.org/rokabovaredezewevizika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zotokes.iblogger.org/oxford_dictionary_app_download_english_to_urdu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budokudepa.scienceontheweb.net/tigifemazodokuvenugitewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalllift.ru/43071088270xm9ri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leninuludobodu.mygamesonline.org/65654917207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varietystore.website/formato_de_reporte_diario_de_actividades_en_excel94zzv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beririka.scienceontheweb.net/lenovo_t430_vga_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://gosefemifav.epizy.com/my_heart_is_beating_video_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapojuvide.epizy.com/casa_de_papel_season_3_episode_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0f926834-650c-4d5a-b53c-ad60ae412ccc.filesusr.com/ugd/6a44d8_bf969e5e66d9484d9ca90651f827b7f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://df9240ce-57b4-430e-a582-521170ca5232.filesusr.com/ugd/10b03a_903e560ff59e456d98f5a4a82aaf215f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://034618a9-9b39-4f41-ad18-95bca1d1c80b.filesusr.com/ugd/48d9a1_a862db631a0544edb63006b55dbaf8c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c1bbde11-5cda-4f7c-8b74-b2fe90b484f5.filesusr.com/ugd/1c8c6c_251789316d0c4748a3147d19a9b49438.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f1c0478e-57b3-422a-b8eb-433964b677d2.filesusr.com/ugd/16c17d_433841d99228496db155cc5b7d0c08ed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bonipoja.epizy.com/bully_rockstar_games_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabotiwufonego.epizy.com/webber_guide_don_t_starve_together.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donafilozevore.rf.gd/how_to_apply_transitions_to_all_clips_in_premiere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1094d5c0-a920-47c7-a1de-7e2d56a92d84.filesusr.com/ugd/47b1e8_29f949ee6f774fadb8e7ec7194cdfd1c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5bf49506-6ef1-42f8-8f90-7e3689255fd3.filesusr.com/ugd/8fe1bf_85e06d15b626434c879ec3fa6716d2b1.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_off0000f38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38D 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 7782957148c089b9d62887e36dfc34054eae5f0a88457d86617aa407e064c17f
font_01_sfnt_off0001059e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059E 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 8db8ace904a3a0bbb5169e74f0d5e9d079439cdd038786070113eff15090407c