Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dd26245041c7361…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-03-12 19:56:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: b38e3c4d5dd4e0abc89ff3159d2b3e8c SHA-1: 69ece162abc8b4b4b9202eb49b582b5db51d6a87 SHA-256: 0dd26245041c73618bbede388c70e7e4c65b3d3c93fbe047f94bbfbc95f08128
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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://jumiwimov.ru/award?keyword=cracking+the+genesis+code+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://regsenatvumen.website/a_business_plan_templatepk7qm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485800/normal_5fe7b566e697c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moviesaddaa.online/how_to_draw_cartoons_easyjx1ta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinzsy-studio.design/pijekagosung1vzy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403141/normal_6007c5396368d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tugrull.com/nosijonagp6f5k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b0c090b1-cb02-46d8-8a69-3fb9d82636b6.filesusr.com/ugd/4dbf3f_566b4d319f3341ee8e08ef2b03a4033c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://748e6e98-33e2-4bd1-95aa-01ea3505a154.filesusr.com/ugd/704f6c_c2c19c31dfb44f70a537f5ef640df739.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e43bf49b-a00a-4f79-8b50-e5cd3f67aea1/can_you_use_an_industrial_infrared_thermometer_on_humans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8319d365-0190-44ee-b2f3-e76f6fd230eb.filesusr.com/ugd/112488_c16659430b514fe68c2517b4c7116a50.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://47a25507-5c4f-4e73-9b7c-0c49514c8174.filesusr.com/ugd/e00bd3_4b6eb98239ec4da9a40ed880795d92f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e192e36c-395d-4660-9df6-aa7aed00c30a.filesusr.com/ugd/3aee12_302efa43ede64638bf0ec582dabb68d2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4de1274e-a26b-4e71-a0d1-d86f0cfee7ee.filesusr.com/ugd/ee4d88_1aeaa1f91b9b4bcdb8e6dae1443b5a99.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ea28b16-58c2-472d-b6be-3e97fe9b7bb6.filesusr.com/ugd/696b8a_890d635927c346a68299368b85294e4b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://33b7cf8b-1cb2-46d9-9063-17e97cba5e80.filesusr.com/ugd/9edd50_b67541ace37140e38c05a3765ba99404.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00053b58-7cf6-49fb-887f-3d8d4ea22312/elder_scrolls_online_walkthrough_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://48e4e0df-78ce-4736-8797-27735e68dc67.filesusr.com/ugd/f3b179_2ac48b5664d343ca83a76a1e33da93c9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b48bf966-faef-46aa-995b-dc83e3822aa9/taresabasumeporugetanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4635546-f4c1-41a2-84dc-73670980fa22/how_to_do_google_maps_3d.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_off00015fec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FEC 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 1c0205dc35104fb94321aebae4fe747f8cf63fe070777d94bd2d2490c00074b5
font_01_sfnt_off00017219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17219 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 29d4b3d40dafc0a431281664f927a82ea4f6c072442f7a2a0764b2ea0aea2a15