Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 101d4bc9cae4fb2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-03-20 10:21:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 40aff552efbc501cf663381bc90013a5 SHA-1: 5ea7e348fd963dfd4ce0eae84b7f54d5605a4253 SHA-256: 101d4bc9cae4fb2af442461dfbacad73ab1051548c246e0551f67c0af00dfe04
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for malware distribution or phishing. The presence of malformed streams and the overall structure point towards an exploit or obfuscation technique to hide the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=community+circle+questions+3rd+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://karnaval.host/dalabupevuvawisibinaifm3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitar.su/gekuwupuwivijukibobazevsg6ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blancop.xyz/zamyatin_we_analysisqe3zd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482849/normal_5fc9619044320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalliteracyinstitute.com/kegiwabobufilixeweb7fl0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boomua.site/vunasejanezulovuzy12v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunesygets.xyz/posofanewofogajonaxetizu9h7uo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://how2clever.com/how_to_use_salt_in_feng_shui8znso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reabook.online/jurumakajokuxugasekesulob9tumx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475720/normal_60014742e6901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500430/normal_5ffc565d27dc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milansit.space/how_to_use_honeywell_doorbelljbk8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azorocheat5.xyz/the_culture_map_chapter_6_summary8glrg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cc652f91-b1ab-470c-b36f-46d838ef85b2.filesusr.com/ugd/fbccce_ca714e06291244b5ab7db9cbb2553957.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9534cc33-30dc-483d-bed2-8d5691710d48.filesusr.com/ugd/3835dd_f09ccd535fb740f2969eb1e9ff390990.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fd7a53fe-11c1-4e60-83ad-ac1bb997268f.filesusr.com/ugd/5cf23b_a11e6bd9abc94089831e392b77764197.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://da54c32a-99c7-4590-8520-800dd2d1cae3.filesusr.com/ugd/7973d2_8e3c139d1ee44ed09af73e5b90d85d3f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1b15a19f-c8c2-4d9d-8c2f-e97aa7ecfe2c.filesusr.com/ugd/eb6c48_b2056d58516f4b72911043c5982292f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52ed6390-a5c1-4502-9f93-599cf6d98ad1.filesusr.com/ugd/f7fbc8_49e0b49f20bf4ad5aff36352b306b23d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://02314edc-d025-420b-9d62-795437f25c47.filesusr.com/ugd/4f0fc1_1819f2734d044cedb55045e528261560.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6c892e0d-5736-4b4a-96a3-cd490fd1fe3d.filesusr.com/ugd/1407cd_f480cca534da4f1da7be9b78d61a7e05.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://56352102-112a-4456-a677-0775450c4ed3.filesusr.com/ugd/ed4e87_e78206279abb4a2f9f3a164c96575c3b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dd3528e8-ded0-4753-843e-0d3cb9f542e7.filesusr.com/ugd/4d6844_77eac7255d0344aea3c5c19e2768ce73.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_off000100ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EC 5556 bytes
SHA-256: e24e521e39d6d4df938ac7396c15f8a31f405d38c10d4638c089850a0ca34fc9
font_01_sfnt_off000113b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B2 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 7805b3e63db1151c8cba47c2b1690976ad81aa0401930477190f61a57a4e4248