Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10e7d80574361c00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-03-18 23:34:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 951a15751801d07d90ff8a86b7f4d004 SHA-1: 8f98bd2d4e9db0b3b61a0b53ec02555af714930a SHA-256: 10e7d80574361c0071facd6db5d25f58db08ec49cb82f13f8008b93994600d03
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to SAT scores, directing users to a suspicious domain. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+a+good+sat+essay+score+for+uc PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464525/normal_5fca44e78017e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energierecrute-emplois.com/rukemijegujuvikatomnp9mc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-favshope.online/mivufejavamarizamenllvdy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verenica.net/hp_deskjet_3050_driver_catalinaf613h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474727/normal_5ff0238c1283d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenda-comp.space/vedogoseq1ygh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbbbbbbeeee.space/cobs_bakery_nutritional_informationkiy2q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://particulier-societegenerale.xyz/sunugenaposuzopedegoruvucvrxr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wofirulufe.iblogger.org/40469564382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458621/normal_604145c8061b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itanah.space/kupijarukezujks9wv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405467/normal_6031e1a338ad6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpverifybadges.com/fixitejexolezatijefamudmqgin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480403/normal_5ffd3622ec19a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0aa8acd9-ba5a-4c2a-bd1e-e8f4193cf1de/how_to_reset_a_general_electric_washing_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6b52f5a6-db44-4d3e-8337-ab33c729cb13.filesusr.com/ugd/f4de5e_7891be475c284ed08c05a9d7d66d343c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kezitiw.epizy.com/almadallah_pharmacy_claim_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://167c8e7b-8160-49a2-a88e-f26749d647c8.filesusr.com/ugd/1ad47d_ca1a3daa7930483488e0880409721436.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5bf49506-6ef1-42f8-8f90-7e3689255fd3.filesusr.com/ugd/8fe1bf_a4d66db3cd054fdf91a5283d1d76039a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://41be308f-8a64-4dec-8b30-4937605be974.filesusr.com/ugd/f042fe_d9306be091ca4797ac8db3db402fa22f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20a3b15f-b031-4a08-97b4-7de8cb19f176/84093939936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirufexu.rf.gd/10224391680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3ae4d138-4ba3-4962-98fb-1b98b40a6a82.filesusr.com/ugd/38062a_658090204b3e40c4a30161d468b15fe4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kubazemaxem.epizy.com/tangled_movie_free.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_off0000fab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB1 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 9f90c0f0d01146349b7894decfd04a4491c2027d7b19497b74f000b13d86faca
font_01_sfnt_off00010cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFD 11100 bytes
SHA-256: fcb4e9b218a0d4af8f63d6e4349223facd2fc4ef61822a53efc3ef023e97be85