Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ccd986756f4dc14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-03-31 09:26:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 191a69d619db583ff0c25ea65eab9110 SHA-1: d67161687e322e36823b689563e6ae4525a97df7 SHA-256: 3ccd986756f4dc14e1892696021de82b7b1b5eb19c15863e0209c7a9c12ea232
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, with one specifically identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing lure or a downloader for further malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and extensive external links point towards an attempt to exploit users via redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=properties+of+real+numbers+activity+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465539/normal_5fc79b2bf2461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419236/normal_604948768abe4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496585/normal_604c9abf0db09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suwisabinupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135351097/zakiweroxaj-tufune-femodigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhenskiizhurnal.ru/jumetevub3b07i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipukawolatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134486161/pijuremojitemaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vataviborabedim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012391/925389eb46931d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jofexudu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135295173/3265540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toportt.online/menukuxotorbbsew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup153.site/dogovor_mary_balogh_free_download3cpox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiloxuloje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135398856/977eb90717b2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-bewertung-id-q2e5t23.top/74737031387f0k2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niromegezos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681660/06a9aa01847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450746/normal_5fcd70768eb95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepulumowuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681954/7366392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simavaxefawok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666246/bcd29a8b663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lizekolu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379949/diropumapuwokovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404116/normal_5fdc5bd1435a1.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
    • http://vakisetituli.rf.gd/ropakex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuzufofegip.epizy.com/bodatotolanurefirujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/boxujetanonikuv/fenobinuzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/waxapoz/xolomuzasafodofogewamone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesipupip.rf.gd/78920819226.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e95f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95F 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 669f5be0318785d300a4ff6e0f083ca2b01ea2340f6c202d9da5184bb1712436
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEE 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 4c74cc3135a9c9b5e4c8c4afc81eb56288e66fb90932be1dc8bd360132200ce1
font_02_sfnt_off000121b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B2 16060 bytes
SHA-256: ae97ebdbf5cb6679ee3ae7f6f8963da9ec2437ada1f672a33085bc8cbe806833
font_03_sfnt_off00013646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13646 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176