Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3971aec614f3c5f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-01 01:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 09543d56bbeb74a8e5cc2912783f815d SHA-1: df6c28e07746bdede823dd372bd72d52ce33d684 SHA-256: 3971aec614f3c5f44642d7f98840ebd0cb6146c75ed8b6c762efce623c119e8c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that likely lead to further malicious content or phishing sites, disguised as study guides. The PDF's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to distribute malware or redirect users to fraudulent websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://huntic.ru/pbw?utm_term=physical+science+grade+12+study+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375886/normal_5fc7e7ecc1974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wumajifutagije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134731747/0e85f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bukodagunotul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012399/69481306b8a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447465/normal_605036f3f0aa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodunuvivilaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775731/582f1eeeefb45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473926/normal_6014b99022998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renenanap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666424/283720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470029/normal_601370df3f964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487386/normal_600d9250d2fe7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426972/normal_606c0cf21956e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nixuxani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134433038/7719152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501794/normal_605f98c33eed5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485309/normal_606bfe9b0b7ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384307/normal_5fcf29a987e9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491945/normal_5fdab8902979a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://marutipug.pbworks.com/f/rononutosajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3859d32f-3f63-4427-baee-23c47c76aac3/microelectronic_circuits_by_sedra_smith_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b931ae4b-6af1-4f15-b28f-f285d5ca89c2/21562812980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopujoxobug.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144413565/rojapebokupexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6b8e8fb-b264-4fe8-855a-1a9d2255d79d/how_do_i_use_the_auto_clean_on_my_black_and_decker_iron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21385a42-27df-4803-a352-5fc1e9f2ef99/list_of_5th_grade_transition_words.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_off0000e807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE807 5704 bytes
SHA-256: 93b5439d1fe984ff9e92fb2fb47e4f4d913c027871065407c710937e93666596
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7B 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 0534eb8f00053995f9f12b1bb1bc2ddfc0506239a2347cb40e01a0e65e15c273