Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b9d7bd789794114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-22 05:00:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c84aac93ddee577555701d8c4e51c51b SHA-1: f16522d0fec8fc8a7c559fa65e1013ea0af253bd SHA-256: 3b9d7bd78979411496807b9cd2ef244d866d86e6334ce1f1b09dd1c759ed064b
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple external links, with one specifically pointing to a URL that appears to be a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the lure of downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://dugedepap.ru/award?keyword=convert+pdf+to+autocad+2020+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ridijafugemi/ib0Whas/12842426085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaxenexeleti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135320290/5369439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelufose.scienceontheweb.net/kezia_noble_kezia_noble.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tozadifoxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134904498/3fc7512f2058f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nubevitawil/jhujJjj/minecraft_mods_1._16._40_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kafexobesa/gibibsi/fallout_4_better_minigun_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jusisobopat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134326654/rolito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385887/normal_602ed24d654e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujibovuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134705076/0f5fe7e9f22435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476416/normal_6019ae995fe83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373271/normal_5fc9b1b0e8248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakomuxoza.getenjoyment.net/bacterial_endospore_structure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411919/normal_603d572c73844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komozazene.getenjoyment.net/free_printable_halloween_math_worksheets_for_middle_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuvabadiredowa.getenjoyment.net/wupububovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fezifoxunif/jedhdgc/how_did_the_age_of_discovery_change_maps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1356272-8bee-4109-81c8-c5df64ff938f/hot_licks_for_bluegrass_guitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef1d3663-a846-4a8b-9f98-ab28dda9ba7a/merit_badge_classes_near_me_2021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c149ad76-129e-448b-b017-b68ab63e65fd/87097710973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raxajabidadida.onlinewebshop.net/games_to_play_on_zoom_with_first_grade_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duxegejuw.atwebpages.com/forced_marriage_romance_novels_urdu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejiletuvasipib.onlinewebshop.net/adobe_signature_app.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e51b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51B 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 77d50f8d09b1a3b3c5b7f6af3b2019b305ee31e93c65ea700f4294de5e156a92
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 11880 bytes
SHA-256: ed817719d5b2bc53dd3d3ec872c983f9f0265ff0973a68dbd199f4c8ba768f9a
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3