Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d43d87fbcbfcfc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.4 KB Created: 2021-03-17 03:41:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 71875b98bbfcfa45d82c06cf1217d04d SHA-1: 0dffcdd7d54e1379a87987e05c46659551f42995 SHA-256: 1d43d87fbcbfcfc494431b9ee5b0a73ceaf41247655f10c2b591e82e4a8847e2
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to an SEO redirector, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics confirm its malicious nature. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'linkedin profile template pdf', aligning with the SEO link farm and redirector findings.

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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=linkedin+profile+template+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378165/normal_5fef1bc55be9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405946/normal_6045c8c016514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426279/normal_5fed10cd5260d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/figugipopar/28082073283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kefefetafij/37736750208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vinejivunitego/wifaramigetora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d872ce2a-2baf-4032-ab86-ab75b2f66d52.filesusr.com/ugd/338562_7d66dc79f918462fa5e44a967eb57489.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_4f0cf950c61047c3a910a23a356f39ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dapekufoxiraku/geometry_triangle_problems_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://425e2ee7-996f-4c6d-a593-b44a2a39b733.filesusr.com/ugd/bb05c1_167ee6e5ca774583b7b1db4361b24b88.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a6defe7-92a0-4357-8a70-d3bce85d30c9.filesusr.com/ugd/385065_6043282447e34311b143551557cea89a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wewiro/zirixosadibokodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dukavunivifa/dewsbury_news_reporter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3c86e5df-9a55-47dd-9d5b-c207b25ec6cd.filesusr.com/ugd/72bf36_46edcfbdebf143f8a4e799d375565766.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6e229dea-1f83-4be8-8cd3-388eabd4f5e3.filesusr.com/ugd/1cfe37_2a7cfa21aa804725b13c49b50370c32b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d3919fa5-c020-464c-a773-72e456e10464.filesusr.com/ugd/29136f_45d2176e86ee400596838490b07881fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sojaxub/astro_vision_lifesign_horoscope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9cf93ecd-64ee-4ad6-afcc-f350577a7522.filesusr.com/ugd/c4dbd3_c8a9a9dfb3af455983479ee9dad6e491.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jagux/rojizaje.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_off00018e3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E3D 5016 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2c62e7077f6cfdb81203af3fb81aba2a6a4fd214eb542e5a3d0c1946e1e0d6
font_01_sfnt_off00019f3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F3A 12432 bytes
SHA-256: 5af9841941a69e4934db65b6bab621bf8a190832d2472a992d284399fef57c2b
font_02_sfnt_off0001c933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C933 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 99ddc6f5858eb134f8024171ebe717cbd02485c31471b921a5021903b5272953