Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ed1d9fc380a1d9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-04-08 22:57:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 6141f0084cf35baad7c8dd1afef95e70 SHA-1: 128cb41ac9ba8686bff587ce874911a18b4783ed SHA-256: 2ed1d9fc380a1d9ae85496c5c265a7219f11452bccccd53dc170af525ec20a5e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically pointing to 'zajinet.ru' which is flagged as suspicious. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to English grammar, suggesting a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=perfect+english+grammar+present+perfect+continuous+use PDF link annotation
    • http://gipovasota.sportsontheweb.net/rudimajawevikilasebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366956/normal_606cc0c68cb66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416661/normal_603f4e4ec42b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425917/normal_603088bf4d666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418755/normal_604dc3cb2b3a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivudanu.scienceontheweb.net/34999961533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388274/normal_6047fd3775ec1.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/a91e9e8e-9a55-4e56-b76c-5f851b31229c/what_is_grain_line_in_fashion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d21189f0-7ba3-4c32-a01c-3a425aa38f5f/sundara_kandam_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seroritubofa.atwebpages.com/cambridge_complete_advanced_workbook_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8f13690-7000-418c-965b-214de9eccb97/my_whirlpool_front_load_washer_will_not_drain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c665970a-7d22-446f-9265-0ecadb98cdc3/are_school_uniforms_a_good_or_bad_idea_argumentative_essay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavodusepigixu.rf.gd/let_s_go_pikachu_shiny_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukafimagog.atwebpages.com/fiximajitowagegefisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jijomelaj.rf.gd/wondershareelement_6_ocr_plugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vajifotikidigi.rf.gd/can_you_change_to_word_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovozenamofox/bitusagotuzeloza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/891ca1e4-2205-446c-b3a0-cff6f4f5cd5b/ejemplos_de_ecuaciones_de_primer_grado_con_2_incognitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/abccd484-49f3-4ece-94c3-4e8ff48907be/vuvuxabuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/widiku/92231105406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d22df31a-6cfd-4a71-9b73-a6073d77f0e6/roarin_rainforest_jumperoo_age.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cecd9354-d62c-4223-ae59-fb07a177fe44/what_is_management_in_business_studies_class_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/liluvad/71605956660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc5c958c-c585-40fd-a383-63ae415d5499/14356638770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/238bf80d-56e5-43b3-a56b-352a7daef1d1/61769280286.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_off0001076d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076D 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 02735d42098c8cc0f83bc338f96cdffaee21ea4a4cd33ee93134bcea5c9bd9be
font_01_sfnt_off000119be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BE 12276 bytes
SHA-256: d71423170c1355e5de26d2bd4faf41b0fba488703d1ef2a1e801471d4ab5e225