Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 235d7081d7cdef37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-03-14 16:37:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cf49e13253484926a8ad23b6c149b170 SHA-1: d3467ead8ad1b3d2d60bbe2a63003074a9742810 SHA-256: 235d7081d7cdef379f2ec2c724c14f311caf2f9faf67cbc4e49bdc17c99cf78d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a specific detection name indicating it is a phishing trojan. It contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://resalured.ru/wix?keyword=mexico+city+blues+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://3203epworthcres.com/what_is_the_current_wall_street_journal_prime_rate_todayrqvz0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-kvartir-otzyvy.moscow/verbos_impersonaleskq9fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447662/normal_60027982c4655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376374/normal_6029af56ba167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417315/normal_5ff94437b5a01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378618/normal_6029d3b59f3ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387704/normal_5fe36515e2683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luminar4-download.xyz/bmw_nav_6_car_kitaptbp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ru-dev.xyz/water_pollution_information_in_english_file6131k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413231/normal_5fe28a2719405.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/465ed1ee-1069-43ce-b10f-c526e8f2de3f/where_is_truist_located.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab54ca51-b6d8-43d9-8339-4a02d2c1c3dc/fujifilm_finepix_s1500_best_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc9d9248-fb5e-4a9e-b4a3-6b8258c92271/dd_5e_advanced_weapons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92b54579-95c8-47bf-852a-b2176cee373c/the_chronicles_of_narnia_the_silver_chair_2019_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a126edd-4530-4555-934d-8e7e3ab21f2b/to_compare_apples_and_oranges_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57a6757a-54b8-4ee3-bf3a-b44405864890/tugoxaxuwezowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9df6e0af-a028-4e88-91ba-61a1b37318d5.filesusr.com/ugd/7c1f05_1b023f7051184cee9434b42cfbfb6919.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e9d00f5a-6061-46ed-b8c7-e6a98b56646a/calories_in_vegan_taco_bell_crunchwrap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cc968bdf-8a18-4a65-a72d-893c706ef441.filesusr.com/ugd/bae363_99bdfe80928c4ed09afab4d53d44cfc0.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000eced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 5156 bytes
SHA-256: c29010bb2f64c6068d694e50e46b7cd0d58ddb0fcc01966351b26278985c6b0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA7 11028 bytes
SHA-256: a419f40245c234e3c6ce83cbf20dacb9139376e8daef292c8e50d3264f953a14