Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c3dddb4f7308285…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-05-31 14:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7501fafa783e81f8e5592d989085242c SHA-1: 2085ad30f51f6a0c4dc4e25b4ebcc24cec1c9978 SHA-256: 1c3dddb4f730828535cc088d625646bac142c8369ced500d2feabe4b96c54085
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, aiming to trick users into clicking external links. The presence of a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, and a 'download button' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate its malicious nature, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+install+psp+iso+on+ps+vita PDF link annotation
    • https://tabekobos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869214/7a47e1851f74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392472/normal_606b66c588bf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ragurinibobuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986244/9177902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379612/normal_5ff2812d26bb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pexiseziburenof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134685472/lesuzepogiwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4414358/normal_60b43529d490d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480582/normal_600799a8b31d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447646/normal_5ff3833395dd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390381/normal_6051cab994f60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vofutomafete.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134463257/setopabatutupe_pofogunode_mokivodidulizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489251/normal_606cbbbace72f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepuguraxetud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/137512182/4954470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilifanaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444715/manevire.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/46d0f288-30c7-4bb2-a963-bbedba589274/67969795047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4da95767-ca99-4195-bce3-b8a40072f734/how_to_combine_like_terms_on_opposite_sides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30bfc0fc-ce88-47f3-8bf8-1a88450a7b52/kezanutijuwejidigadatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b5b6faef-e6eb-459c-adee-733a90501e1f/69563915142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77dd858c-e7a0-4b20-9f93-b74740a154fd/tipo_de_sistemas_dispersos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57963efd-6a96-41ed-a239-e6e0eebfaa65/what_is_the_best_computer_maintenance_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/762bd99d-5f0b-4075-92ad-ffb2b102826f/what_does_the_upper_left_side_of_the_brain_control.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_off000113dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DD 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 68c4004c1d7f3b52240b6278f14973687ee96418e1dcd746eafa8eb505979486
font_01_sfnt_off00012475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12475 14468 bytes
SHA-256: fc703c5786d3a0aba8dafd1fcc933d1445abb6a450ca25f579d8389ef4954d5e