Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2236a8be0e1cea3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-03-26 09:09:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 212b12c393ae9ca21b169c6a2a19cde6 SHA-1: 572dcb1e4472cf0317636cad6b1f6579b68e8b5c SHA-256: 2236a8be0e1cea3ed28ffcf11a339939d5788f350a49e36df16d42b3cbb97857
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Urgency / deadline lure' heuristic further support the phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=ghc+student+email PDF link annotation
    • http://dilurijarejo.22web.org/ligigewararuwijixukikufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rorezumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134591247/buroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobibumalo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/niwafij_tirujopivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4497650/normal_5fff6d808d475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371514/normal_600e93db7e6d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382194/normal_60514b7ef2c4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vobasonuniba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668907/lonakobuv_nodaveduga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470533/normal_602b395cc2d0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarebizadutobi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310067/wusosoj-mumin-dufakanav-daseregizuwezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://rifovedukuj.epizy.com/80503977990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7a82e36-22b8-4921-a3ba-1e3c54c283ce/monster_girl_encyclopedia_werewolf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safadixuzet.rf.gd/artistic_anatomy_paul_richer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e68dc60b-7451-46ab-bb11-bf3c28bc725a/dumanatujaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e0b2519-d1fe-4e52-866d-4ce572093a58/dragon_age_origins_denerim_main_quest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71068391-4b4d-44bf-8a0d-d4b9c57fefd0/13889147250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4da1af4-8f27-4ae8-b708-99167b4eb056/sumadovikasuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a352bf62-5d9f-4d71-9dff-bdee17e3c058/gta_5_3dm_crack_and_update_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4fd63d3-8b67-4db4-bb04-b457b7e19875/fiwomixeduwupegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5f5c3f35-2e6f-419b-a1e9-140d3b26512b/zametikerapesokejoxedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be2338a8-b869-46e2-8077-82c4d361be2c/lusebifenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/913c9298-ed18-4da0-bee3-69fa5a0ddac9/64672662799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9e18ce6-6976-4e4f-923f-545ccd73b0be/altered_carbon_season_2_episode_4_actors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b3c47b4-f219-4a2a-9878-83c0774b44ef/how_to_make_a_table_with_metal_legs.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE757 4884 bytes
SHA-256: 62ac04ec36fbbda035e5e07078c2b8890c6bc7a229601d52ad8132eedfc666fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B8 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 0f797e7a56760bb9f95b6cd84f2ae4a955c5d611fecc4020b113cff704259fb8
font_02_sfnt_off00011d64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D64 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34