Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dfaa4543bdd9615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

153.9 KB Created: 2021-05-30 08:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: dd9dc71effe4e4ea4f134f77fdd199dd SHA-1: cfe579e2259f124f145f490829b4dd2b31a498ee SHA-256: 0dfaa4543bdd96155e877684bd3e40a923d2227655f19c56f9141e9bb7206dfa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=manhattan+8+books+set+for+gre+4th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tofikopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381225/pozupoki-kawumagewo-zaxuvetabowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454045/normal_60490d88f178d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484995/normal_603d991acd02e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374185/normal_60692055e89ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xisedemagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681548/golinowunuk-reniboli-kixaninofokuza-laniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374198/normal_5fe9fe5bafde5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lutesikesopisej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884151/8193172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunikesetula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739723/1761615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zexuboru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683252/sogixilaw_mokubuxefiwulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414331/normal_601fb59ba4656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367294/normal_6067cbfebb178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4393893/normal_60afe2ce70324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415745/normal_606455172253e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gefozovunipor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585144/6484191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453550/normal_6026d776a6da1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403819/normal_5febb3353113d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zitavumerut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134465292/3643700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jomezafivawig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856232/bowesimuzule_bevevekoveki_pejexegujazeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450336/normal_606c981496e48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490376/normal_60625d31ec509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466172/normal_60129a2870211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0001f12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F12B 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 2059c8fcea05a28c4c2d39b0b3bb570f96975630856c82ba6eafb14189ea4eda
font_01_sfnt_off00020410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20410 5764 bytes
SHA-256: 26775462cd291e325820a47f0325e6f4d3093dadbd83562d691510ac928f09f8
font_02_sfnt_off000217bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x217BB 13432 bytes
SHA-256: 953d1c5637a8e456442f3b450d8a368af4488a3b0b4db88a8140fa227158e650
font_03_sfnt_off000243d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x243D3 16132 bytes
SHA-256: e1c0be1f083949b69301fca371b50a13b2e5d6d7a534d85b46ff30d714689a59