Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a14dd6bc43a3fa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-04-01 23:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 764aafc9f3d5cb9fd463584a42e9cc58 SHA-1: 24d21c839dca292fb818a0fa21b8743905921f6d SHA-256: 1a14dd6bc43a3fa88233bd79a76c200a7fd35a78955f9a9dd9e16b47f881a7e1
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic identifying it as a link farm suggest the document's purpose is to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=appsc+group+1+previous+papers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gopadaxin.mywebcommunity.org/cambridge_english_for_the_media_student_s_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gegebafebofad.scienceontheweb.net/bendito_jesus_letra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fadovemani.iblogger.org/how_do_you_write_a_thesis_statement_in_apa_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mejumeroxara.mywebcommunity.org/july_banking_awareness_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relelije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438324/6858896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tojanulisito.iblogger.org/sfg_2_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jijuduli.mywebcommunity.org/voguritosizogetoxalivogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekenig.mywebcommunity.org/tumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megidexabaror.mywebcommunity.org/75465358646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesebumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134617302/1971922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaxiwemusemoj.mypressonline.com/estadisticas_de_alcoholismo_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xajuvezovaguze.rf.gd/vajiram_and_ravi_ancient_history_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kujazidi.epizy.com/cisco_nexus_9000_vrf_configuration_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ed3c3d2b-f35c-44ec-b8cd-bbc2fc96b584/voleledofamizusozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd2701ce-439c-416e-84d9-089e0b5eba6a/cara_reset_wireless-n_wifi_repeater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c11b47f3-61d2-437d-9347-726b9dc15f3b/montesquieu_spirit_of_the_laws_book_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niwurekatexo.atwebpages.com/small_business_ideas_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75475baa-20bf-4c45-b0d9-7fe20c92d893/venadaside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1000a839-8973-4b3b-bf21-42d797e694cb/xalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rofuvawitarul.atwebpages.com/acls_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolevovugubim.epizy.com/43261950583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzemepusiloj.onlinewebshop.net/vabekisu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E4 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 3d109327467579f094773d560e544daf960da67c0e5773cd93e7e25f74cc3674
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5A 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 30d8e87ebf96d2754eb561fd875850c9723d18b76c60eda02ad83a16124bfa67
font_02_sfnt_off0001211c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211C 16092 bytes
SHA-256: ea75db71c9df7250347a03039f742fcd189f5fc3f08964e696816fa8b5227073