Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32dd791997cfb690…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-03-09 09:02:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 97dabd71fcd2bd388ff8805a7dc84d32 SHA-1: 7d3e15a8a85760b116ca7362455c3602257e4846 SHA-256: 32dd791997cfb69039cc3a25639d7e43a66664ce7d0097eda32d1994b63cfc91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, with one prominent URL pointing to a suspicious domain that appears to be part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Vipkid mock quiz answers', aligning with phishing or social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://midufefew.ru/wix?keyword=vipkid+mock+quiz+answers
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383798/normal_5fc66c84dfe80.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455639/normal_603168ae43e4d.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471690/normal_5fc8c4d5cf916.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483097/normal_60232d3ba8ac0.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417653/normal_5fd3c9a7da626.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jirudumom/bIkohbh/27382230233.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402707/normal_601e60832a9dc.pdf
    • https://mogivara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712472/vadogixow_tufexaradipov_fuzorigifanimej.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vizinifum/hcKjizZ/tapujepowefomekitezizox.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wolitobutak/sgepXgj/color_by_numbers_christmas_pictures.pdf
    • https://vuxabodunufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407539/giperekukaj-fukuvavoxo-pigifewukol.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381541/normal_6009db849aaf2.pdf
    • https://jalusuduzewot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131456012/d3808fd4ad38.pdf
    • https://fezagigix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813643/fdf370e4007a82.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51030d3c-e5c8-42b3-9c1d-a5ea811ccb8e/torojogojewevezenugow.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7acbc8e9-61b7-4b70-8067-6a4fe506a523/sword_art_online_series_order_to_watch.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ebecae98-a97c-4c91-a5ed-c9946b091e88/41694247004.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b68894c-f2b1-4428-8298-79d0621d7d7f/50119664186.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8fca9862-70ca-479d-aa44-ef18066ac53d/the_expanse_season_5.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f08bb976-1fcb-462b-904d-2128272fba07/all_physics_formulas.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5b3cb39-cb67-4908-9d9a-ef231e66011f/how_to_use_turtle_beach_recon_70_on_pc.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/588c8d9b-5b4d-4a1b-a4b3-d30959c95ff4/wordly_wise_3000_book_8_lesson_5_word_list.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_off0000f8c9.bin
7a947ea86dfc66e3a3ea47c7ef69cb125879519a6013cddf4436b7f70d019430
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C9 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010abc.bin
072bb696c394a30ee976009872a24049d37070021c68291c82a4677ca9f60ee9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABC 11364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001313f.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313F 4324 bytes