Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f60eab396f1e4390…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-04-01 18:31:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: edc050a5286df8afd6e854dee6761600 SHA-1: 4a3380dd12789dc45ae1354c9dfe4f296467c900 SHA-256: f60eab396f1e4390750c1c89bb2819ec9a5ece954552e6764aa9b3a3511fb0e4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The primary URL, https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=important+english+word+meaning+pdf, indicates a lure related to word meanings, likely to deceive users into clicking through to potentially harmful content.

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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=important+english+word+meaning+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491926/normal_605449a2a10c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sixutaxujarupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882582/gudage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bulelovuroga/jcVigv0/homemade_beef_burgers_recipe_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pawekenu/aynlSCH/51358893417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464709/normal_6035508c2d702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rexukewanej/diihhjc/tanglefree_optifade_layout_blind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nurijodefa/iaZbp9v/music_lines_name.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewegabelera.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135390500/fatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383137/normal_5fe984746373d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samabuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739499/menosobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374360/normal_5fcd6ede68cbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388165/normal_60144c4b77b0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negozikazaseju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587396/9579622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4381105/normal_5ffc86ee7755e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381541/normal_5fdc381b452a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b0b846a-35ed-4851-b028-883c4d504357/871081752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/477e6d97-7cc8-40ee-8de8-e596950af45a/jinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d80868e2-5d34-4dda-9345-0396294a35aa.filesusr.com/ugd/f9fac6_f109633c53174453ab9c25af58c096e6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d4cd3b7-91e9-43ac-92b9-205473f1e50d.filesusr.com/ugd/28146e_9617ed6f6ff245bdb7e669e5900815c9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e216d865-ddc7-438b-99b2-64609380b1bb.filesusr.com/ugd/7ae8b3_da65c881ef744389afc37b6acc4e4cde.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75d21a0f-d235-460a-a393-d140c81113e0/wigatavanibapizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c33c3ce4-fa2f-4f19-9477-7a801b41b29e.filesusr.com/ugd/ebbcbd_3aceaa415cd344cfa27e86ca82ea4f24.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/352fe3aa-1275-48a3-8ebf-57ef928bdcc3/sony_dscw800_b_20.1_mp_digital_camera_black_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f7690f66-1871-4559-97e0-239dee5b15da.filesusr.com/ugd/d2cc1f_8e6b56d1e3154169a440a1b697cae71f.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_off0000f298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF298 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 5e595e80ea3d9d9f14efa6df73616907f906c14a8e87ebe1a499f982e65fb63c
font_01_sfnt_off00010524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10524 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed03fb5b1884ddac285643abfdd562698888070216dacd7b5d64c5bc1f3258e