Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34bb8358c98575e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-03-15 03:31:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 13419b36af5c568cbbdeaefa26235ee6 SHA-1: bade3b374510fd7056566f054950fdad7055d548 SHA-256: 34bb8358c98575e5d551712aa428f94aa2637a1af5e6b14f2c17bad62fabc438
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Coca cola scholarship information'. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing or malware sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/123?utm_term=coca+cola+scholarship+information In PDF document text
    • https://bujasosepamus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134626994/1980753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368998/normal_5ff6098f8ec34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komaxinatobofe.medianewsonline.com/wosubixatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485435/normal_602714a9e8782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409095/normal_5fdff28b1c2c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepekogiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637498/lulitokaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokizafot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347773/pidevoxoxegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dibasipelop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738559/475ede77e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevakevo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400716/3515021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibatotud.iblogger.org/why_is_my_vape_pen_charger_blinking_red_and_green.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wawupibinotab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900246/7001129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417141/normal_604e8ad1e7a66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutugupepu.iblogger.org/xejosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zewadomi.myartsonline.com/how_to_reset_sharp_cash_register_xe-a41s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zomimek.epizy.com/dovivowateninen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df59add7-85dc-4bb4-a839-0223bce463f1/the_far_side_of_jericho.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9043bcc-c1c0-49dc-8dba-ddf269c7a307/78805798783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b27a147-6176-40ab-8d47-0fb445ca8ed1/55125154782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0ab4501-6e26-42a8-9f24-f17c1bd5aca0/bobbi_brown_makeup_brushes_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zitasixan.atwebpages.com/guvutepuwupolosumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2dd5b295-7d8f-44d9-b05b-7b160c9287bb/brother_hl_l2380dw_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitinorakinin.epizy.com/gebelenenori.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_off000102fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FD 5160 bytes
SHA-256: f4adc6b7c1edf6595131eaeccc136cd755b58b0dd84709b8a6a9aacd18a0177a
font_01_sfnt_off0001145e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1145E 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 8f3445a076dca1ae468e2f61ea210d5d5db2c261f6e35b22882dc76be2778e43