Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d56f95c1ca92756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.1 KB Created: 2021-03-23 11:06:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5c74a8ece4ddbb229579d464b857c6e1 SHA-1: a3477057883666672c6189cf66d972e4f7027e2e SHA-256: 2d56f95c1ca92756eac67f4603e60518fbf7d8abe02507d3c3f822f0290afec3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain search-related text, reinforcing the lure of external links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=how+did+the+pawnee+tribe+cook+their+food PDF link annotation
    • https://donabetolemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637402/nivafuwojut-sunulukaze-gowuwowofux-noluzemigoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lobobofu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134680821/fulujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fegexogemitise.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602812/24aeeb0b6ff5d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisozuko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723473/0042c67c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betedodokadez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882186/gebirovarota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopomitesukov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453216/71ef5dcca2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xerejijasoma/49nvhhX/patriot_off_road_roseville_california.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimutaribosisup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444719/14409d257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bufibinokurun.scienceontheweb.net/active_and_passive_voice_multiple_choice_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gareketekefebon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134695024/f6e069d303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manamuposa.getenjoyment.net/29035190257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kifesajisibak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884742/3759193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giromotazipajid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384567/tafawudokakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejunuzegakikuv.mypressonline.com/zakidijevapolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degimogug.mypressonline.com/73237574859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sutadejuna/X5Vhc7A/highway_to_heaven_road.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotobaruti.22web.org/acmarket_apk_update.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kukazowox/basic_boating_knots.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakawat.epizy.com/jikosaxurokakozolawojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/julaxel/win_7_activator_daz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gadumagabusodel/tolijitesukosemadinedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavivemigowoson.epizy.com/pascals_triangle_worksheet_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jebokizez/affidavit_of_residence_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mavixu/illegal_things_to_do_at_night.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19208 5080 bytes
SHA-256: dce2b4745b89030029fe8047fba252ec2d61831acf6792f2c03fff46a33ec067
font_01_sfnt_off0001a34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A34C 12544 bytes
SHA-256: e9ee9ddc954ebc6d882ae7c2be7b451ed2315c4f55effe091609b1e02712d670
font_02_sfnt_off0001cbe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CBE5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3