Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ecaa0445a9b56c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-03-28 06:16:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 54224ac4bd407529f4a32edc508ca65f SHA-1: a02e4d585af40affed1aea17213c6d74120cf3d3 SHA-256: 2ecaa0445a9b56c3aca573ebed73fc63dc887bcc0355c8288e2f031cbf6df76f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it's a lure for 'biology mcqs for class 9 chapter 1 pdf'. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=biology+mcqs+for+class+9+chapter+1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bizowokare.getenjoyment.net/approximation_algorithms_for_np_hard_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavoxujeledi.iblogger.org/angadi_theru_tamil_padam_ing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466680/normal_601981abdcdc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4423699/normal_5fc8dadcabc66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416918/normal_6058f69b51771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komozazene.getenjoyment.net/craftsman_edger_blade_guard_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutarima.22web.org/mahatma_gandhi_autobiography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumalutaf.iblogger.org/tumavijaseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pupezawat.scienceontheweb.net/wejotusofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajolamuseku.medianewsonline.com/arbeitsblatt_bruchrechnung_klasse_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamowenugeg.sportsontheweb.net/62733373910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450353/normal_5fed35a257f99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zasosidimul.22web.org/wwe_backlash_2006_full_show.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leseweremizew.scienceontheweb.net/tifurogafuxejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefilevazobakeb.mypressonline.com/denotation_et_connotation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418587/normal_5fe45a281a87d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459469/normal_5fd703622e2e1.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/5ef0e55e-6b27-488b-abad-7bf2db7e2912/6999537058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9024c7c3-4763-441d-875d-500ad31448ca/panasonic_kx-tg7875s_cordless_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vawofirulev.myartsonline.com/jasakemojukexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e0b452b2-9703-403a-bc72-0f1750344ee2/how_to_harvest_fruit_trees.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badamowafe.onlinewebshop.net/aviation_phonetic_alphabet.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_off0000da15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA15 6052 bytes
SHA-256: fd74ce697ceffc5f1136e501c249090cda75412cc4191b920ac2bbc456b686a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8E 10640 bytes
SHA-256: c62e9717f2efd87db260cb7820bbc9f45359d9cf6a64e5b5c251845e4d8f3428