Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a027b437ff76b20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.1 KB Created: 2021-03-15 16:15:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 12063b7d51761412c22b2b1bca5dddca SHA-1: e7dd389650143be9d5c9db406ce64b637d03800e SHA-256: 3a027b437ff76b20eadc825aa5ea958127497a19e4f2036cbecaa4be8475203f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, with one prominent URL leading to a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body, though partially corrupted, appears to be a deceptive lure related to a 'study plan'. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=plan+de+estudios+2011+primaria+quinto+grado PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuwifoviwalo/h4R3a2B/alienware_laptop_17_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salet.store/25735759524lrskm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ragojagef/iXiidy2/smurfs_village_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404529/normal_6004b963c6dae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sologavabo/e9hdigx/15886544821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadebey-x.com/53358437167g23qy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/disegivoji/jiPNLr1/lodewalujebunumivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-casino.xyz/what_does_the_color_orange_mean_in_chinaqi7ez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473938/normal_5ff7a347d3151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wotezowedo/0OihH9N/top_5_woodworking_projects_that_sell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodajavux.scienceontheweb.net/discovering_computers_2016_chapter_1_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bexixibeguben.sportsontheweb.net/46956818675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4497346/normal_5ff0463fd5d24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gidenateg/hFggT2t/wevajobuzovozekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425910/normal_601e10090906b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bopelara/Vcgdihc/2687912683.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/6c75a358-d1d5-4c12-be73-acf02c3849f6/what_is_proper_table_manners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4794cb8c-fdb4-4995-b5e4-5f990ee86d1f/guzuxujefiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nizowozutagele.atwebpages.com/2964712173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc0d00ec-9f67-45c1-b1e6-365608a6c2de/tizorefolotebesusijujepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b17cc0cd-82d7-4826-8234-516cd4212680/jisolagamawojona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/61bd9502-aa25-4cbe-8a6b-25f211acf2fa/24573038933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipuzala.myartsonline.com/zuzevisumazorixote.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_off0001c88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C88A 5732 bytes
SHA-256: 6807aee76150cbe6a0b8f3b9c466dc023df745035f8614ed22e6f287977e02ac
font_01_sfnt_off0001dbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DBF7 12956 bytes
SHA-256: f3aee5d7e5251dff5ca1751a903bb652b6c4a9b20eb4b021c0d6db9b97d2b639