Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 209dcc20be8a2351…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-02-25 02:50:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 1ea2836621b3d1605e44da534396aa3b SHA-1: 8dcb6b2a2b46a33ecc9c1f67ee772aff48dd5926 SHA-256: 209dcc20be8a23514a62ec8253adcd534586531937f84e9014197095bc3b9e5f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a car seat manual.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=chicco+fit+30+car+seat+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://istra-backwater.ru/66164792879qznwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoop-fe.ru/scansnap_s1300i_price_in_singaporeaio2l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itasda.online/30293544923iehy0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruzoboxilotazex.22web.org/marching_band_snare_drum_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouily.xyz/gagiwonamodowemaluletifiw9nxws.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulinar2020.site/georgia_driving_school_practice_testdcqyh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://liroporuki.myartsonline.com/maze_runner_cast_dancing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zomojafo.epizy.com/95299109042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wozoxub/apple_wireless_airpods_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemubozureta.epizy.com/81002879639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lojosuxotugades.epizy.com/kajurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jukikusikodopom.epizy.com/27632768471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirufuti.epizy.com/demotion_letter_to_employer_template.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_off000114e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E8 5332 bytes
SHA-256: c9ae2e9a7666ca7bd6771a82bf19abf1db6eb1ce7751c7fb6dca5f0494f77acf
font_01_sfnt_off000126db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DB 10916 bytes
SHA-256: b0e018cdca93434d1791d9e4db476ad70c829fa537e9ba0773ed1ed6e7484aff