Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36c2ed2e69d28fab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-03-22 01:44:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 869ba03669a02195a4307ce560ab9f61 SHA-1: dfeb9ee5be6f716a081144eee489429ef6ff850c SHA-256: 36c2ed2e69d28fab194d0f8c7ca8d16b3db23cdc5a2990ae92bdbc1753f01dd9
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/strik?utm_term=the+three+questions+pdf+class+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486765/normal_600f08f817102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bisuligiga/cigIlje/49196221305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dopenemef/i8nvjct/sepenatirimovirusedomotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nesadatifu/jDOcXEJ/70888392343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degujub.iblogger.org/push_notification_in_android_example_androidhive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480590/normal_60359171ea1b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xurajalijok/PNnihjB/jugoxaxakabuwovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezolurumo.iblogger.org/sharp_tv_aquos_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lekusovu/ggg5SUY/old_world_of_darkness_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bujutinape/w4h2ia5/luwagiresutepejonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vulovosovem/hfogd04/16916472577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzuvas.rf.gd/xugizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://66f9c2bc-82a6-463d-9ccd-9c94d3d8805e.filesusr.com/ugd/b361c6_7866ef5a730a48eca0cd6429465511d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/548e9c4a-daae-4d6a-b542-622c1943279b/litojijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89dc45f2-6b00-4217-8160-35d6803336a9/jekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://810dce77-56ab-4324-823a-3549757f4eab.filesusr.com/ugd/1fad07_c6eabc3be8574b8cbbdfd3b4a5568342.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fofifalog.rf.gd/facebook_lite_old_version_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f553b869-db09-4775-9458-de02ddd899a7/29069181883.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_off0001308b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308B 5396 bytes
SHA-256: f711e4dc9f7ab9683792889276953e89db660d0a732771ae265b02384007ffd1
font_01_sfnt_off000142e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142E6 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 53738100295da1799b496b1f33099345ec660c60916f69b02abde3e74b122b92