Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 033c92ce6a321746…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-03-31 08:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 65504c68fc0f7e3c485ef36a4ef1054d SHA-1: ce6cea2dce070d13bdbe4b5786b1eee63438a0e2 SHA-256: 033c92ce6a32174606a6208006fbb78f31b01b5c6cb68e17761442eee313b0f4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to IELTS vocabulary, a common lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=best+vocabulary+words+for+ielts+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://karulapox.iblogger.org/confucianism_five_relationships.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojopimo.22web.org/refugifagupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nexaware.epizy.com/binary_decimal_hexadecimal_octal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://728bf1be-24e3-4891-ba98-fedceca1a503.filesusr.com/ugd/3268c8_1efa0d3651034a5fbf8f80df83901efc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://40ba1f7a-6e91-49bb-bbb8-dfbb40a2bc60.filesusr.com/ugd/22bf55_9adab92eeaf74978902e9689043b2a1f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/livivuvuwugeb/18739857600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdc3fad0-85dd-4e34-85f7-620d54d4ff6f.filesusr.com/ugd/10cedf_b1962e06e20045f0abf9cc27af82bc55.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b86933f-16c4-457d-be79-bd509ab967ca/14089411749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://964beff5-d24f-450a-94e2-fa7e9faef44a.filesusr.com/ugd/61158f_96697e8de7d04ec9b289fd17e18eebe9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f406ee21-3106-4cb4-a136-ca69b915e59e/stuff_matters_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitizopovopaso/26085072415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c54f288-fa8f-4b9f-b12b-58738e181508/how_much_do_foster_parents_make_in_nc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec75ba9f-29a7-4b73-bb51-4c951d20089f.filesusr.com/ugd/17cde0_a002140d4fcb4f55bce1cbf12a813b59.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d6236f05-450e-4b96-9875-1783d83c708b.filesusr.com/ugd/912de2_db824a123e2b40798ca34995e6202b58.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rubigireluj.rf.gd/que_es_el_aprendizaje_significativo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/baposivarabuj/26888087993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufoxorog/nzxt_phantom_530_black.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e561f589-d33a-45a7-8312-5b0b5e8edba1/20395402924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuladefamevib.epizy.com/andromeda_ethiopian_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fa8159e7-9fcd-436a-b0da-5c7ce31e8d58/lg_washing_machine_wm2016cw_drain_pump.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8ab8d0a6-ebcf-4503-ac90-3c5d9a0926ce.filesusr.com/ugd/8585d4_b5b5c82a01c24a189c339dfac2a4315f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bexolamabad/mepamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7eb3c74-9f10-4efd-a612-efb7ea03662f.filesusr.com/ugd/7198c1_4c8ff80dc5f74c6e88613dfdfd407d44.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_off0000f74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74D 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 07240f10933b2d677480584002b9b77d0a31805a6f91bf3ccd4b8a1ee11d4424
font_01_sfnt_off00010a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A81 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 7919819fc42f4273f56df7f2a1910d1e756abfcd67bd74ecedd86512c4e31a05