Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21b98530da28c64d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-03-14 10:25:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5c5fe442aa4ef3036eccc4c7c76ff301 SHA-1: 93a4e6e195227072eb0a263f79a0b2a2f4e58386 SHA-256: 21b98530da28c64da2dbc97b9970560ad21c83c2e53f1429e57e0f03a2842c8d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs, including one pointing to 'ponafet.ru', suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'king size bed sheets egyptian cotton', indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and external links strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=king+size+bed+sheets+egyptian+cotton PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4381748/normal_6008dee63e38b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471706/normal_600d4c43cdb1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369189/normal_601a454930818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozagasogudizi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682295/9d20f8d133ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fokefetebebinin.66ghz.com/after_effects_intro_projects_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kojaresojew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134312518/rotatokimobadubutaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4502336/normal_5ff1b17b1dd31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosaniz.22web.org/best_hd_wallpaper_site.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabavawuzafurur.mygamesonline.org/silawolivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebepufu.mypressonline.com/the_treasure_principle_bible_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimatadokij.mygamesonline.org/girosanimuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sifijaxamop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332722/2527011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466666/normal_602a0f0894971.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/bejikefowu/camera_scanner_body_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vatosolikijike/56429594796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witeguxatuzidaj.epizy.com/38988028142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jazuravazaguz/bitezusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gulapore/4259930751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lizijor.rf.gd/juzijepixexawubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigebuwew.epizy.com/lowewatajelodobusidijigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xolavozezimodan.onlinewebshop.net/59563553496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tutapaxi/37878666647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keregimuw.onlinewebshop.net/35679097300.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_off0000eb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB59 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 2e07c5bb7cfe36e5aed51e2045a1a549d1352cc7d1a6604df212e6dc6e6d32b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0A 11324 bytes
SHA-256: ab68fd4f53168959b382a8f497e6d23a189d0ca0de602267d776279479fa658f