Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25398bf0aceee731…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-03-08 09:46:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: e099732ef710f9ba491edde4f3cca012 SHA-1: d9af16db433e8882057e54b349ccc52965fc25e7 SHA-256: 25398bf0aceee731b719bf55ee31029285756702960f8a1e9a336c9cf4e8eb2d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to suspicious domains, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Dcaa audit manual unallowable costs', suggesting a phishing or social engineering pretext to entice users to click the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=dcaa+audit+manual+unallowable+costs In PDF document text
    • http://paxosij.mygamesonline.org/what_are_the_a_x_and_b_y_components_of_the_net_electrostatic_force_on_particle_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wapadax.scienceontheweb.net/can_i_study_medicine_in_english_in_spain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secret-empire.ru/beowulf_liuzza0e4mv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamontov-net.cc/how_to_inspect_a_new_construction_homeuwpm4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cucoupon.info/956224805798nyur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsaf.ru/leguvimerekukancfxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aycotoro5.xyz/nigoziwegasatob8t3to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bowawugafux/vjdgjCw/seesaw_class_app_icon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendbilisim.com/i_feel_empathy_or_sympathydgrj4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunufosabupes.scienceontheweb.net/guribixolaxizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sujubowip/jeMn8Xc/alone_bee_gees_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokexal.medianewsonline.com/gujasaposusakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nipizakevenuvis.scienceontheweb.net/how_to_set_timex_ironman_30_lap_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wewuxujudu/hjDUiaR/sofakiwuruwufijufomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raponikidosal.getenjoyment.net/jizopawenonukedoweros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mapelimujeku/fVgijxZ/train_conductor_world_hack_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postel-na-zakaz.ru/8740618440731fy1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pycnidwzxc.info/40740071052wi3h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbcua.site/415695939358mhgo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofijovelu/iYjfhcg/offline_music_player_for_iphone_11.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/c3811f8d-21ae-47d1-b145-31eed18e8185/muxarine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1405482-8d87-42b1-aca2-b57177e4bbae/baxatarotejobezupodonage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b790cfc5-ed45-4ea4-8064-b5d90868d3db/jisonejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6580f924-2883-4c97-8c60-6b68ad6bb3fa/is_go_ask_alice_a_true_story.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_off0000f163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF163 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 6b499c54219199e02e17b9c0aab92d49c489cf4ee216dd30e7cae4ec3150a9b8
font_01_sfnt_off0001032a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032A 10136 bytes
SHA-256: cc2902ad0c0fb54532b44b75115bd25c79de9208b6623a356a023b4434c644e7