Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d93e928bd08cbf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-04-01 10:27:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 33e49be1ef4a5c252d61dbd86c9eecec SHA-1: a3ef067c29a9a7d8b9a055da3a123509d1eb6ef6 SHA-256: 2d93e928bd08cbf1a5f004e94e7f1c6b1affb45129c523a469119c6675020301
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a lure for downloading a specific PDF, which is a common tactic for malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=animal+physiology+4th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461523/normal_60280ecb78383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokokunebede.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874183/a33df38cb8f97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-officialsite.site/carnivores_ice_age_pro_apk13cil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484641/normal_602c4c489e29a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovebagilin.22web.org/math_worksheets_1st_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421940/normal_60158957ba80b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubisteq.online/hor_taew_tak_6_full_movie1f4nh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideal-it.fun/25610335978p6sjo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463533/normal_6030ddec2066e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubovumalez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458479/fowadazido_fanul_nodevexaxelixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizenarinirogav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437147/xolemukifivasok_zodaxesum.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/57835d15-1902-4f9d-880a-0a45751f6e12/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy_movie_online_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a2ad419-073a-416e-8cbe-5fb3b270a3f1/wajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dda455d7-0698-4ae4-9403-6db78234dfdc/zoom_g1x_four_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuwudejirogipux.rf.gd/htc_one_m8_phone_case.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rodakarugupoko/toguguritexejajapewuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43e3a5e5-7307-490d-b395-c89e0ba9f147/how_much_is_the_tapping_solution_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e7016ac-3c20-4623-95d9-3df3b700c35c/tevesokuxovamutudagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vabemavuputenif/lakey_peak_surf_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rizezobabub/38565952155.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_off0000e0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CF 5632 bytes
SHA-256: c5bff8b1fbb360419fbba32f1a78acd22dc31e87103cf8b7bd36cbf5d9203a27
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F7 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 305faee322f57e559dc6e8614f371c10bf9024e7c7914e1b107afe059e8c5d5f