Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6b1d6eb0a7c6cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 03:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a95d08f79abcdf5ff76a90ee772a7813 SHA-1: db8438d0e46c9ca492223772807d51eff4218f82 SHA-256: f6b1d6eb0a7c6cbe2f51fc49f76ca4dafac9c05b9ae66f981fe0d075463c977c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a prominent heuristic identifying it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and a 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK'. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://pistant.ru/pbw?utm_term=does+usps+actually+check+media+mail', which appears to be a phishing redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://pistant.ru/pbw?utm_term=does+usps+actually+check+media+mail PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500438/normal_5fd7d4eec7d47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475866/normal_6025bf1a13abc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392666/normal_6062a75d4764b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368474/normal_602f096e94dcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sufudoni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853368/nuduwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savapavazatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677348/5985174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368492/normal_5fd281a30745d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lozexisivebuzon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702594/ae93a34946e7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367279/normal_603d899f1e48c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375342/normal_60682514e847c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417999/normal_6009f55305da5.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/146a397e-bfba-4c0c-a2dd-92c9e968e0ed/lochinvar_knight_boiler_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7512990b-4306-4c03-bc70-a0665a98b797/how_do_you_load_a_swingline_staple_gun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27069c11-a2bf-46fa-af34-6c27bf106373/arris_tm822_online_light_blinking_amber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc21955f-9f86-4afa-8ca6-c4f4b8a051b7/what_happens_in_the_3_stages_of_mitosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23f6a874-b2ac-4a72-b017-816cf3d7620b/rider_waite_tarot_meanings_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/134d5729-9516-45c8-a959-f52f87e3310e/31000931898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd721c04-e774-42a9-879e-5cac0c1fe9dc/78642617696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57237683-096b-46cf-b70c-6d77780d45a1/35049679364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e47e13b-f7f1-413f-ae17-b4e4db28cee6/license_key_gta_5_download.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_off0000ddc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC6 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 36e1e79d17e863afa3c6e6df1a2db93049a521e63a718c27abab69b0fffdd5ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000effd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFD 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 8d80e0bd8b1742933c6ac24a5b25ffdca4728808ad2b038a8cfabe267f03ac5c