Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 189bffe909b6dc56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-03-23 04:24:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 59c53b780c9c9bdbeed99dd03222b8bb SHA-1: c67851a6eec8e08b15fdc56ac4455a7f956e3823 SHA-256: 189bffe909b6dc560125ca05f70d979dfb6e6593e430ee0a304f68e9090fc435
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains a heuristic indicating it's an SEO redirector for phishing. The embedded URL points to a domain that appears to be used for distributing malicious content, likely to lure victims with educational material. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=amines+class+12+important+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367313/normal_600c636a1dc53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384167/normal_5fea2c8fd2172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366639/normal_5fe2f851da240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413361/normal_5ff8b5e1e12f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnikator.ru/skyworth_32_hd_android_led_tv_reviewqlib2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinnipoh.fun/mijugazixibaletagesuros73hi9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383146/normal_5ff586af58c61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454281/normal_5fe9b74f1b8f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openchambre.xyz/60273696657lc6kf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369322/normal_601ef05e5a3c0.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8a219c4b-63f0-4b47-a49b-20958f5dc609/67815686121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0cd48b2-8fa6-47d9-9e5a-89c751318ca6/kitchenaid_professional_600_series_mixer_best_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85d103ac-e265-42c6-a7ae-fc0a0c62132d/22329850444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/086174d3-2d72-4ef0-8546-e963b9550241/what_the_bible_says_about_mothers_and_sons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f511b851-b0ba-42e7-9390-800386ef69a6/80947199726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/464ef900-9aa7-4a9c-bd7a-ab51298269c7/fisher_price_infant_to_toddler_rocker_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9dc7a000-ab58-4d81-96ca-c15e045d8a34/nipolotigabumumudaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/156f14d2-30e4-4318-b8e8-0a882d867369/75581935796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b009f412-9b83-4084-9ed3-3b49bee51738/xinawivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e0aad849-a842-4367-af09-c9eae993790f/79050023294.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000125e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E7 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 24dee51f587960545e83670d78a5d70f9559c1d1ed4861838a0cdb84e4833cae
font_01_sfnt_off000138cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CD 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 62c8bf1ae1fbe9117e28ae74e51a7a8c1973711a624469a53e28c1838067ba4d
font_02_sfnt_off00015da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DA0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333