Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78161b688d52a03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.0 KB Created: 2021-03-20 17:44:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: f257590c62e4144f69f7cefe64a97f50 SHA-1: 4296ccb8ee30cf1792596a7216c14402c17e132c SHA-256: f78161b688d52a03bbbb2ab96ce5d0afa3627b521815361c73c46f8d510d13a6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO spam or phishing campaigns. The presence of a link to 'nipisod.ru' with a 'persona 5 dark sun special' UTM term suggests a lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=persona+5+dark+sun+special PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466165/normal_6027ac716adab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496826/normal_603eb13a79db0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413019/normal_5fd643e2d903b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412154/normal_603f16d55d603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381546/normal_60534e2c45480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378160/normal_604b0a449cb6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420018/normal_601291e31dd3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378157/normal_5ffc4bc4654fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8767aa75-4bd5-48c0-94ca-24e983238001.filesusr.com/ugd/debdc1_fd73debd74484a368d970124d9b04b1e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39c10a3a-92c6-412a-a1bb-b8a1fc48fbc4.filesusr.com/ugd/259099_1fd13d94551c45fcb478d8692a3cbb72.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://24451074-f53b-4065-993c-779ba3957988.filesusr.com/ugd/0ae25f_ef76e3d8d63d4ba3940f4b75de4a9f54.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://146c8b6c-0b46-450b-8ed0-b45f1e2a4974.filesusr.com/ugd/b58d21_c9c7b05958bf4d1da438203b9f30762a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tawosutosuxi/wujijufoxixugavidixiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://769966b8-4adc-437e-bba8-f198cf6e171b.filesusr.com/ugd/41a0b6_e09f281f103b40b9a8e537ccfbf72610.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/memexelu/caller_ringtone_name.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jotizifime/chrome_version_78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zozofufulolig/carroll_emc_report_an_outage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://56db2a4d-09ce-4ff6-a558-abb1d6727cd4.filesusr.com/ugd/003b86_b3951e28d40c4030a80f4d3d0ceba6a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/suzixegazunow/angular_6_get_form_control_name.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xapidajovaji/wavedudikavegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nilititonawafim/convert_to_autocad_drawing_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e2685184-9bcc-4d63-b126-5f7cf6655de3.filesusr.com/ugd/267f13_d6cc54c458fe4fbbb839d1dd721e5f57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/firudegix/xigalo.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C76 9468 bytes
SHA-256: 9f39b63b93eb5381edc3df63431042027eac306dc4d3b1470bd8169d96dd06e4
font_01_sfnt_off00016c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C97 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 631bcc4e2133837f487bf647863007e09442a5485176fcdca27c4e0f8e5e9ded
font_02_sfnt_off00017e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E8D 19980 bytes
SHA-256: e30cf903a809ebb123076cc0a26d823e462550cc2a6530385182fea20ad0b289
font_03_sfnt_off0001af23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF23 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 60f53b17f7925ac1818ac9336ea58fd206fea48872b5377b70e6fb8114080afd