Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cc41a2391b533f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-03-27 23:18:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c8f59a83446f7a2ab59166fca08b20af SHA-1: 99671a2a4b859a994c5f0bf1cb23034337df47d8 SHA-256: 3cc41a2391b533f9adb6acac1aa6f6bee8f0e8013ebc10980a5e0afc64d25410
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF generation, and the presence of embedded URLs points to a likely attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://fokemale.ru/award?keyword=edital+alego+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fafujedajir/jijjiPQ/bmobile_trinidad_data_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufofameti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874118/fb174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogusixotitijib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134692341/finexowogejajanepizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://busenijerebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695513/69d9729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408187/normal_602c6125d5871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vawapisoxe/hdhaYgf/today_s_date_in_excel_function.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zadexona/jifnieQ/93945948762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gutoxokotuvil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380594/fdabe6c9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/basunemavut/hdP9gdn/7898080360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusozesazos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584188/5226239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasipibopokele.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136096953/2684523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pifonode/icF6ijv/70785978333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pebabole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134698512/1904757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417119/normal_6038fbf7b5345.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/db75c344-5ecd-4335-9aa8-091ade7b3f99/31544065393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4ac36a2f-1533-488b-b282-cf34cdace458.filesusr.com/ugd/bcfc12_3c622cbb8cad4993bed6251e6a7ec817.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/503436d1-a7b6-489f-bc74-604acb934c42/merij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4a0f302-b060-43a0-af10-a0364da5eca7.filesusr.com/ugd/c6d327_5a10e5fb6ed0452f8079f1ea562e8da9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/218d3a93-386a-4304-b41b-7526c2e4a1ee/whats_another_word_for_young.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a19d597f-2220-41b3-9459-688249e8a20b.filesusr.com/ugd/f19f53_cd04e9b8db7b47d1af98e4544478590d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/357bbdc4-20ae-4ec0-b1b5-c5a24f9fa546/fenawamatasojoxa.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_off0000f80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80F 4848 bytes
SHA-256: 522ac852e1820c75d127f8aabd63c5bddbdf628ec02ff1f963eff15cd85157ae
font_01_sfnt_off000108a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A3 10788 bytes
SHA-256: a1fd72397f177ae84039cae914b832651d5e264effa81afe2e63abf55da73fc9
font_02_sfnt_off00012da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3