Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2863575cc59448c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-02-03 03:12:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1212c011f91e1457cffc95439d550613 SHA-1: 53088c6828b56d353ec3b9edac740dbe36d7e50e SHA-256: 2863575cc59448c9a5a1b799f8607e220cd99f1aae2c6830ccf09d139c00d2d2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://druttle.ru/aws?utm_term=beethoven+symphony+9+violin+sheet+music PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xogatijixe/7jgFPQF/27220534059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465537/normal_6017d06d0c2fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389823/normal_6010325879e4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454430/normal_5fd63ec14e536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barobinamad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134756413/jetobexobume_bixonejusexu_kinopirisipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471109/normal_5fec0796dc300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomazotesi/jdUjbgj/push_and_pop_in_python_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454289/normal_5fe91d0f2d796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393018/normal_5ff782f170c4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/putizimetiwe/hZgc3E5/red_yellow_and_green_vertical_stripe_flag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tesegape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387632/a9dbae7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zekakodususebu.epizy.com/girazepufona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tipikaxe/electroconvulsive_therapy_guidelines_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tipikaxe/award_template_google_slides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vupileloluxus.rf.gd/quadratische_funktionen_lsen_mit_pq-_formel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejogamolefip.rf.gd/54916091661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gozifep/nabalubaru.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ece7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE7 5232 bytes
SHA-256: e537a0badfd0a9efe58a623e201a291f4d53014312f73fc1d9f2260f82e4c161
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9F 2060 bytes
SHA-256: efda9760780256ac9b4358d36efb720cd52d232891923eea7fd69b9b485919bf
font_02_sfnt_off00010848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10848 13508 bytes
SHA-256: a215404bf55d06b08accb36af3bea6b5400f55c2835f79a060c83f67bc889d7a
font_03_sfnt_off00013295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13295 16232 bytes
SHA-256: ded19b8224b240d0b71857fcff6d758cbeec74f435df92366a86e51fb8b1c043