Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f857e4ce37eaf777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-04-17 16:25:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: faf506be877df4539a5dc1a5d054002e SHA-1: b63a9a39e35b6780bcb1f761f1e378116151b6f8 SHA-256: f857e4ce37eaf777c930170a4ad673e8230eff763c46bbc460453466fde624a7
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 pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The primary malicious URL identified is https://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=flashback+triple+delay+review, which is likely used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/strik?utm_term=flashback+triple+delay+review PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450890/normal_6007629533eae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489607/normal_605f56c10cc7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zibepifutidi.sportsontheweb.net/22021192273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405642/normal_5ff942b41d2dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444850/normal_60174ef5768aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuxofabope/qifghyT/dalata_hotel_group_plc_annual_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388825/normal_602a8865f06a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449783/normal_5fd677aeb131f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488582/normal_602e1be3da83b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370092/normal_601b7620a00bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xodegajeriw/sMiaif7/label_parts_of_insect_body_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warowusavi.mywebcommunity.org/10_point_cognitive_screener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4461694d-a6f7-4a69-895a-ff5ddeb3c622.filesusr.com/ugd/f504fb_b9dae46244244998b4f3a7bd65ae5141.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://144ece88-722e-4d59-a9d1-ae16887514c2.filesusr.com/ugd/48b17f_4b23b8172a0643c7a716a7c21a43df25.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c3e810f9-371e-40b9-9a0b-4695a496ec77.filesusr.com/ugd/2c7c49_dff3ae3362d049ae84fc176016b85388.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://492f55f4-3442-4b37-b17e-39d9f2f0ae8a.filesusr.com/ugd/7dfe85_89da76dadf9a4ad085b7abb59688a32b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/duzexefemosaxe/marks_and_spencer_online_job_application_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luramamelolem/gymnastics_photoshop_templates.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE29 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 3f1af4adfe74f6fa84033debe5f9d014e215a40146ef5ca2293c8d1dac2c2afd
font_01_sfnt_off0001012a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012A 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 71f06a5d46c2b1a5f281dade2723dbdd3f01c6c6635ced44cbe3827ca3e750d7
font_02_sfnt_off000127b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B5 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 2173a1880e9f774f759393e7d0d28dda91d04d8a3eae6bea41b822770b343b90