Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1644d66d61dd87ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-03-22 07:25:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 32c81705ff991c5792e0741ad295fcb1 SHA-1: 2261d8ee07e9af41dd57c5952079b49a9c7e8199 SHA-256: 1644d66d61dd87cec1905203df7d5fca2bcb892bfcefd5abcc0f2df6af399046
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are associated with link farms, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Cambridge english proficiency masterclass answer key', suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pelibifir.ru/123?utm_term=cambridge+english+proficiency+masterclass+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://mx50off.pro/nostalgia_electrics_popcorn_maker_assembly_instructionsre2ox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eeuuurrrrr.space/79129580145w6q8z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417145/normal_5fde81143e76c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inostrana.com/what_is_the_difference_between_slt_1_and_slt_2ncxbp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rawitotizoxuk.scienceontheweb.net/91516303555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375086/normal_5fcc2de823d1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467030/normal_60080a42bbc40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutovuresas.mygamesonline.org/maxi_dress_2_day_shipping.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivepozepuxar.mywebcommunity.org/what_are_some_good_lab_safety_slogans_that_rhyme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4394061/normal_5fc727e60bfd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489596/normal_5feec8b1542f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-bio.space/3030709981v7oq4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452381/normal_60164fc0b1263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470553/normal_602310b60d33c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wersita.fun/27253186731oawm9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://tizexazebubo.atwebpages.com/pubelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/adfe3ced-a9ed-4204-bd7a-da9f0a744ad1/hp_laserjet_pro_400_m401dne_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xezonijida/incident_at_absalom_station.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kozewuposoridil/elk_guided_hunts_montana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vabedafozo/xokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65d75bba-7948-4646-a2da-9d8fab978082/drawing_portraits_for_the_absolute_beginner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21690019-a630-44b3-9246-a00569d42215/kuduror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakefuki.myartsonline.com/technical_drawing_basics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bubodeliza/cydia_ipa_ios_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24b276b9-3f53-4e47-86ed-2347a8ba03d3/47581267432.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
    • 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_off00011343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11343 5776 bytes
SHA-256: 581bab6a197dd2aa5527c6d0901053ab03c395f4a4db53deea7621511bded1c4
font_01_sfnt_off000126d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D1 16276 bytes
SHA-256: d98237143f09f29661390956e6d8a4c16c7d22c341ae3e3e78ece14d941707b3
font_02_sfnt_off000155f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155F4 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d8a1a34de14a7b8fce5e51635835121d353d188f9ac9ce1e11538509fd4c5cdc
font_03_sfnt_off00016a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A8C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2