Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f59b8bedc6efd450…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-23 15:12:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f22e22b8819fc87d4df1c8a4ca627c03 SHA-1: c4b87cacf6780b3656e105f3a5b050aa010770a7 SHA-256: f59b8bedc6efd4502dcd7e9515690d75b701d8cc91e1e58b182a221f5f8b3a75
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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, with one pointing to a suspicious domain 'xajibur.ru', suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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/strik?utm_term=clasificacion+de+los+numeros+pdf+unam PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gobuwovuv/AAG6hdC/elfster_secret_santa_shareable_wish_list_apple.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dosoxikovere.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969917/dutap-zumizafufimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizekexejanagiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593847/2e6e1f9e1164a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gibuximo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665594/pifobib_xedudegaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nixivezez/b9hjiKa/big_helmet_heroes_best_build.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1green.space/aatish_full_movie_1080p842vc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lofitner.buzz/telamimuvefuwijozumenarbnyby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azules.ru/78369407944n8p24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizosajigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381839/fatitovadinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://216tilford.com/fervent_book_chapters6rex6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4c72699b-aa2e-4dc8-8bd5-1a54e8f938a6.filesusr.com/ugd/f3cb45_5c126f06a21b4574836f0d107e4f7db8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/824ac26a-8ce0-45c5-81d8-49851ea022a4/is_there_an_odd_thomas_movie_sequel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fad77e45-b914-48ca-93c7-22bebbdaafde/pazixono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pibabopuduj/free_flute_sheet_music_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e8b94c7-278c-4a65-9c30-8d61c93a8f31.filesusr.com/ugd/9ff9b8_029bf1a5b1c74cbd8af8f0b20b6b12d9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45c85ac8-81a9-45bd-8f74-7f503538dcdd/modern_portfolio_theory_and_investment_analysis_9th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5585e9c-3606-4782-a417-d58f9babf951/how_much_oxygen_can_a_concentrator_provide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6428a20e-521e-42c5-ba86-d20e0b4ddb22/english_to_gujarati_offline_dictionary_free_download_for_laptop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luborinizu/2nd_grade_math_timed_test_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a1457bb-a4d2-449b-8914-d784a503a6da.filesusr.com/ugd/c0fca2_e2766d66da8742dd9b4332916ef9b81b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jedadokuti/wexipigoxorewotimoser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lebaxa/sqlite_batch_insert_performance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fopalew/57113261047.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_off0000ec8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8E 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 9e730beead864a055a7a5ac311c7dc779ada1cc0d82ab00876b90451806151f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE27 11968 bytes
SHA-256: 96760c09f2cd5bfd2f686407f98959fea5239c14ae51827306e33781bb88642d