Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a54367eed063409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-01 02:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c47942ba2140d81b9887791bcce88144 SHA-1: dbb98f157a32c58d4e9c58128b7ac386e767983c SHA-256: 2a54367eed063409506ffcceca57d1b03f1fdaf73e5a94cf0f2048716abe45e7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

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
  • 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://botokaw.ru/123?utm_term=nexus+9300+qos+configuration+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374175/normal_605a745c3eab1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417525/normal_5feeb9cf2c1f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378160/normal_5fd14d8962baf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503578/normal_601653eca341e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464542/normal_5fe22ba1d9024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480893/normal_606aabbfaa98b.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/f8e532c5-c9ca-45cd-b16f-9ef15a7918da/renatazarorubegotusabituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapetipubi.pbworks.com/f/adventure_time_finn_x_huntress_wizard_fanfic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b811203f-d8cb-40e6-957f-ce4285b3912f/tugomesisixirilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degenazi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144433851/tebezazazuliwilaregiwewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2cfadf63-7beb-4cb4-9f54-184b3ff4bd08/zakesetinilaxusipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/18307321-b68b-42a7-8ca5-f9d3565c368a/vusisazipijuxolevilevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midevodimu.pbworks.com/f/japegidakejadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e7c9f27-613f-4b0d-9489-93fb668f8933/rheem_criterion_gas_furnace_not_turning_on.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89be0141-eac6-45a5-ae75-650dd623da64/sosutugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02775ed5-54de-40ab-ab11-4175e4acf139/the_only_ekg_book_youll_ever_need.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c91ceb1-995c-4271-918f-ace0d84b8b67/dewalt_3000_psi_pressure_washer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/660e1ef4-930d-4bb3-b469-67c87dbc393d/79331937257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sodopateduke.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144426555/55552745403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiwedano.pbworks.com/f/maytag_bravos_xl_repair_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiletejude.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144428796/murphy_bed_kits_with_desk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5b31f22-993a-4800-9e85-336db3f44887/dovitisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuvebag.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144425091/39002861084.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BD 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 5a48d20b8602863ac2f1fb82ee7185a69c621e474e06b3a2f76b2dfbf6e3c79a
font_01_sfnt_off00011579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11579 11492 bytes
SHA-256: ce236874e0de348ae37d74b76867445150502671ffa2ed9c219dbd7103dea164
font_02_sfnt_off00013caf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAF 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501