Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d4f8e3dac98e8ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-06 22:30:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: b464c02850d2bf736843adeddb5938c4 SHA-1: 4081a873b9369dceda865967104b1eaf6fc19344 SHA-256: 2d4f8e3dac98e8eccfc96f774251b037414eddd004647fae73b9485c782c09c5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Sex education season 1 episode 3 review' and authoring information, indicating a lure to disguise malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the phishing/trojan detection strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=sex+education+season+1+episode+3+review PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ponajadu/yzijEie/on_the_rails_farm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeninimi.medianewsonline.com/el_llano_en_llamas_cuentos_completos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestablestl.com/wpf_combobox_itemtemplate_text_search1r0bq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xodaxedepapopox.mygamesonline.org/custer_died_for_your_sins_chapter_summaries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makifilibavik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135383918/fd266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fevebelok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012800/b0b07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lady-bug.club/58892636386bylee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dowusasetitemej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307927/luzamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mejebepagomuda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494428/vupejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wugolekufo/hbEeYgj/business_simulation_games_online_multiplayer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zokaguwozan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738936/sotimowevozogok-jegoxusag-fafejofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamaded.mywebcommunity.org/nudibunixowurogevikubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normal-id.com/like_us_on_facebook_app231om.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xepidenad.scienceontheweb.net/human_development_a_cultural_approach_3rd_edition_chapter_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moserusoba/gjgjhgi/metropolitan_theatres_gift_cards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gepokupaburorew.mywebcommunity.org/69937504222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/duditizonut/irhihct/tusajokudezonafuwakenol.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/81f0b4c8-f4a8-4bba-9fb2-786b89ccc4ea/thermodynamics_an_engineering_approach_5th_edition_solution_manual_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pidufozu/26434541437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gapuruxumeg/jexosedijikuvamuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d06555ae-1e72-4023-a763-e7aea77a9cc6/delta_kitchen_faucet_sprayer_parts_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f4350bfc-6f63-488c-8f28-2588bfb96c0c/how_to_use_ninja_single_serve_blender.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88f94469-b5db-4d7b-9206-b0245794fc6b/gosalularanatunotugikobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/234726b7-1e5d-4122-a6ca-fff0b60e14c5/giluwoxilenobivinijik.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_off0000f380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF380 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 83ad5e6419a1b1b8e8e312635427c2dddc5a25dbdba451d3d98670a20724236b
font_01_sfnt_off000106a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A6 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 3dcea9b27510f714cc38638507ac7b05846797ce28f603f5574241e3f8940e77