Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d552b241fc25ff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-03-23 11:26:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 198be8dc450901f042b75dac730ab8e3 SHA-1: bf5bdfdd801b04850a7e08435b75f3c3df7cbc24 SHA-256: 2d552b241fc25ff461ad5122844732794c3252290b79a11c552fd95114e0ca57
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs, with a primary focus on a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+do+the+divine+mercy+chaplet
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389108/normal_600dcd3b8947a.pdf
    • http://vepenuvix.mygamesonline.org/dilanugiz.pdf
    • https://nulesurusisozi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744420/45a3b.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369927/normal_6025aa43db90c.pdf
    • https://nurafotupitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134495453/jimuwebebelomur.pdf
    • http://vepenuvix.mygamesonline.org/50_soundtrack_-_fifty_shades_freed_2018_full_album.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499995/normal_600ffddda8766.pdf
    • https://lewebivaduxug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392118/db9b43ba.pdf
    • https://fejilezujew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340931/32a89aec40dad6.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lemefofutomapox/bluetooth_driver_for_windows_10_filehippo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b936efdf-9699-4dc4-83db-7d255613e079/zebra_gk420d_label_printer_manual.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fa22a33-5cb7-4c1b-ab58-582e8090113d/catcher_in_the_rye_playlist_project.pdf
    • https://9169454a-6e45-4b39-89c4-5cd9bf0a6084.filesusr.com/ugd/32fbc8_2e066d8a27024beb910c1e371366f401.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gafedupeba/problem_solving_techniques_in_computer_science.pdf
    • https://979cd01f-16ea-4d2c-b189-234964c95597.filesusr.com/ugd/d4c4cf_7f290f1a19a24c4fb2a3fb666860362e.pdf?index=true
    • https://f2d828cf-06d9-46ea-85af-d88b0bc20d44.filesusr.com/ugd/501a20_571dce335db24ade84ab30ae2bd4421b.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nefomojuwet/bci_joist_manual.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80175250-1dd3-4951-8eb4-6d0d21f7dae9/85854468581.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f67b.bin
20875311c9157ddf01c1e76d2ab3fb13a9e28934a28d1120e8b759f371db55ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67B 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010892.bin
259817e2d693ed1b03975c0626a8731b49d2f8da43cf995c8c96024f93139b90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10892 3644 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000115a4.bin
912e5259d83c12e0d15370baddfb04f80ead42af9cb6d9882a394643ab758b83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A4 11192 bytes