Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12cd96e6a4c0d88c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-03-17 20:15:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: b1e9205b313b2099e5a6bce44b306bb6 SHA-1: 36a6b898ee53bd4d2fc217f03ea17d13a8559745 SHA-256: 12cd96e6a4c0d88c8140a825785b72169c96684ced5866a2c6d3ea67445f93fc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=precipitates+and+solubility+rules+lab+31+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://tumugisoluxadez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134601474/795475151c1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zodatowafe.getenjoyment.net/pasutejubixusekuzijagaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujajegufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108800/parulokezalaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412394/normal_5fc95bf4d3081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484636/normal_6025d1b873741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468823/normal_5ffff3f8937a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375355/normal_6049b5717a392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roserubusigiwij.mywebcommunity.org/18618030848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokexal.medianewsonline.com/how_to_get_a_letter_of_administration_in_new_york.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478134/normal_6004f0b3717e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393041/normal_60450d5e76c74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474218/normal_6015164233640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sawemawe.mywebcommunity.org/warrior_of_the_light_-_volume_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigusukababimer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881512/e93fe575bd037a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443325/normal_603d406f61c53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421341/normal_5fd1769eed7e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babitilakibo.mywebcommunity.org/comma_usage_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasajelisulozin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/8663799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://56076a71-1b70-41e8-afe1-d547c394b4ee.filesusr.com/ugd/ab0d05_55c0c95b423f47b0b6d4bf4e2e690970.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0f0532cb-4478-41f9-91a1-cf277c4732ec.filesusr.com/ugd/8acad3_b3049a1cdbce488583b80848c8febd1a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://92e0cadd-ca3c-497d-ba7d-1aece6ee6da0.filesusr.com/ugd/008e52_dd2fbff359dd4f42aa86e4103881d2d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4cf2acc4-d143-4013-a78d-f21de0873c4f.filesusr.com/ugd/e4636f_561ecc85c3ef48ff85ce57cd448451b4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ea9429b-0332-4ee6-bb75-ab9535b56c99.filesusr.com/ugd/e2f7e1_57432111fb37478daf1a40a8200ef71f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://97d49ff2-d914-4ae4-8ac8-5e5cf5f77cad.filesusr.com/ugd/6350c7_40f92e745b864d2987b2399e839ee9fe.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB74 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 72f27634603d14ccb7a44f21d128a3f123b9c87b6f28b3f76737fce0565eaa29
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB0 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 02c69caf4c6ee170e108d108ea156293eccce119842c7837de3c52f19ae37eda
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 6aa68abdb5b28c4d843ec4327d2dda00cca949b7c23372d5a6369321b774d98b