Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9b98c4c689a1fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-03-08 21:53:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a24444fe0cfe6d47ebd79be34324aa2c SHA-1: 4328c5d42a8b06d3bc788513a0173a0cd232bab3 SHA-256: f9b98c4c689a1fb341aed225ad66a072f670eb9e6051ad373296ec7929e3226e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, with one identified as a malicious URL (vilenefex.ru). The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, suggesting an attempt to distribute traffic or host malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+clean+waterpik+wp-360 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464056/normal_603e27cf18e94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471092/normal_5ffd77de3b04b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496001/normal_6002c69839dfe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412773/normal_5fe94a87bfa95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412767/normal_602901b60ccfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://09235f31-469a-4613-94fc-36d04c1f642a.filesusr.com/ugd/8b6407_8be0483e5be7485dbbf32c7d39681dc0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d819ff30-bde4-417d-ac7f-7ea64f0b94d1/vawafeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7eb3c74-9f10-4efd-a612-efb7ea03662f.filesusr.com/ugd/7198c1_d7b715bbf54b4d1f9ef24859bd79be44.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rowubunak/dolila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a121017b-3fb3-450c-9156-48dd71a9bf80.filesusr.com/ugd/07625c_a0ba27dbb3f64c9788e56ac47a8fbe9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sosupejuxofedo/bibaho_obhijaan_movie_filmywap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxepiduded/72374097311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48f7fc98-ed32-40cd-91bd-b903e3ee9262/whirlpool_quiet_partner_iv_filter_removal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fapaga/flowing_software_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gixirojozogufux/testout_network_pro_exam_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/161fdd83-6644-40ee-894b-738790597917/why_have_i_got_red_spots_around_my_eyes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a3482e3-f562-4e7a-92a7-33b5a2987586/28868454530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/loxopudizus/2309654990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4129fe77-0e14-4ab7-b114-3fd4fafda839/the_very_busy_spider_comprehension_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2412e503-3c3d-41c5-9cce-df6579834c58/66756830180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/memexelu/bootstrap_themes_admin_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e1eccfe9-8888-4f52-a155-e9c8e84e0752.filesusr.com/ugd/4fb05f_dc5296fb73fc43d685b047469d4d2a0f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05c18e13-8ad0-4514-a001-93104646f66d/fidixusasikufewuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://650c977b-0274-48a2-8498-43c0efc39f4e.filesusr.com/ugd/dbad32_ce40d9e39f214e72baafbf734574c84c.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_off0000f9de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DE 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 66d357408d3077081673a0b7c2e4c92fc632aa20ef6af0caadc8b0bef73eee66
font_01_sfnt_off00010c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3A 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 986cb4cb34d3333a3ade637eb932f9b21a08774d654f0e6db2f1df1b49194c2b