Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d2ace5404d9b013…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-06 07:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 10554f17cf924ba95d0e12b8974ce2d3 SHA-1: 3e9a3512c548360699070518e26e4c8f1f37f734 SHA-256: 3d2ace5404d9b01331425c115540886a2e2106642dcad8e306244d12bb65bcf5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate attempt to create a large number of links on low-reputation domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and the embedded links strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=harvest+moon+gba+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://voradirara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134744625/77a9b97bc27e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigegenatiborig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740049/5757422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabaxezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134766945/dorudilafomoze-saxikinul-dikozeguzi-sirafivuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rikumuxazomibib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136082685/6543243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366659/normal_60184c1f46ae1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476756/normal_5fd8b9ba7a8b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizuxukavawot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134376570/jopinugegofuvub-tinofapebeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481053/normal_5fd7f4ce963d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikixobitesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776626/ea9a8ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pijuvadugodawa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307721/6be7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wepeweguwerixum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856135/zitosub_besepiv_tolubegiji_gubapovapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450727/normal_605325ab6cb88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sijomirurefi.pbworks.com/f/vikumula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df32e9af-c64f-4906-976c-a8fb0e1285a1/are_duraflame_heaters_energy_efficient.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3dcb5df6-9516-44d7-998d-db4b2da47ed7/69636705661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a866829-42c0-4fe3-9887-36a0125bcf1d/61129139293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zolunegoli.pbworks.com/f/89417342561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famukaser.pbworks.com/f/robimipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47610abf-4d30-4e82-a8d8-8f2a91caf541/fly_tying_equipment_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiboduxoguv.pbworks.com/f/86170020897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/665bdd6b-9d3e-40f0-a100-4ed86aec544b/85352219681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzujufod.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144663201/artculos_cientficos_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezimin.pbworks.com/f/gw2_raptor_mount_guide.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_off0000e690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE690 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 4bccac307aed7e9f7ecf1eb1aac2ca2c1e54f81b0f37203290001e4e66c6ad22
font_01_sfnt_off000108ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CE 5276 bytes
SHA-256: b2fbb0ae9dc67e78a09cb34e173293c5a7f9bdbc53c37bbee39942a26b77daec
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA8 10732 bytes
SHA-256: c0898551b7e6d59e09dd94daf959f37499a4c0e42bd2c64b3768e1c836237a28