Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5b5c76d34fc615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-03-22 06:25:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f122b53f455aab586fadeceb4ce55305 SHA-1: d4959dbfadd14cce82446db14c04940330b005dd SHA-256: ee5b5c76d34fc6150150896307f2cb7b52e9380fb2b18ef6daf383a8d1a94f15
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 manipulation tactic. One of the primary URLs, 'https://xajibur.ru/award?keyword=life+cycle+cost+analysis+handbook+pdf', is directly associated with the document's apparent theme, likely serving as a lure.

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://xajibur.ru/award?keyword=life+cycle+cost+analysis+handbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://salobomuxalevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070078/turebemoforilufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fudegenajeno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581691/a84bf66d7cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasexakenisopi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135982815/2582621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejamelaluboj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311679/993520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476925/normal_605533a2c1227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tizevilujiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406709/807eaf2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484154/normal_602288b6695a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kefapadasogimok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134601884/3385820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juwaniwabi.medianewsonline.com/dumajelokuvupesazemabuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474465/normal_5feb90bd81ad5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedidaril.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134687024/1537877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4443595/normal_5ffb1451f0e03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jusojixanona.getenjoyment.net/basics_of_accounting_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://92fed17e-af34-466b-b3fe-38cd9ef27699.filesusr.com/ugd/192d58_e35ced1777874b428646690747e4a7ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8dcf3d85-40eb-4350-b789-ae6ac2c46e24.filesusr.com/ugd/21d17a_2aa9ecc1e8564c1d9bb33d2192e461a0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5a20c861-23fd-468b-888e-078c5342874f.filesusr.com/ugd/924841_0f33b8e5cc3047faa8a7970bdc1ba6bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35548484-ce42-4b18-9d9d-834326683263.filesusr.com/ugd/a221b6_7a0a46674fc74de89345c975c1ec3e48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6c8027e1-9878-41b3-a9ef-32ba2b6bcd02.filesusr.com/ugd/185811_338aeb89af9a440095b79f4e123da2a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73a1781f-5c9f-4c76-8a11-a8e8c44f336a.filesusr.com/ugd/d9f7b5_a380f817f17245889228735b8048945a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://guriseb.myartsonline.com/bermuda_bus_schedule_2020.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000114f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F2 5392 bytes
SHA-256: a52a66423933bc8f3e0157fa2b65b3dd228bf9582367d2043d035d543971fd4d
font_01_sfnt_off0001274d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274D 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 0b38f6fd5e0b54bfa22d5adee1cfe00629fe134100fc7cfc1ad14a2ab7974207
font_02_sfnt_off0001372d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372D 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 59ae69e96fa91af937d40a892c321ae548a78e67049de95f24fa6de20f43e2c4