Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d2ba83f7d1e617e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-04-07 17:51:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 8f2f274f83d59a9d3cf9ff8035e9d06d SHA-1: c69f2b10123771a2f9f62971c7c6d579e9891389 SHA-256: 3d2ba83f7d1e617edcf8fad34fe648fc3d94d4013b651a327341239d1a4cb7bf
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=arterial+blood+gas+test+values PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369508/normal_5ff9f6091b858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451565/normal_5fe2e1048f492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462982/normal_60320b6b0b1dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391649/normal_605f4d4f3c83b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465694/normal_60301f9420f79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369189/normal_60677a3ed0432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422620/normal_605a180d7f28c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizeretozu.22web.org/hatchet_book_critic_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424036/normal_6018632226599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pikosugurib.rf.gd/jandy_pool_heater_parts_mississauga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c7972686-9310-4d97-8ac3-15e828887225.filesusr.com/ugd/8a419d_0016731dd2f54460905b4a8e281e3eb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ce2645ba-e89a-43d5-afff-5c0150757291.filesusr.com/ugd/c63dba_730f663db0cb4becaab74146b85f63e2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mowiredeponup.rf.gd/60700339291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c05d8b73-d39f-4c49-b1ba-f5f4f4c97c14.filesusr.com/ugd/d55797_1411d4cf02624838b7dfe7dedd102347.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://45e41439-46a4-4c97-84f0-155cfeda4cef.filesusr.com/ugd/9d7ad9_1f2d1e558fd449c9a029e9c9cb3c49ed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2323f14-6df8-4f75-9e0f-b07f846df76f/samsung_s9_launch_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f1158f2-e44e-4cac-991a-806210d1dc3e.filesusr.com/ugd/e4a8e1_8804f850f0a5469b82a2008ecf0b95f3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc273c12-e125-4738-b2e6-b96bc4bd5eb7.filesusr.com/ugd/c8df25_12fc605f019c43ad9d276c6dcb9baad1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7292b199-6d7c-4e84-b646-7854114497ba.filesusr.com/ugd/53361e_0bffae0e433b45ffaab5e2bad9a59b19.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/877e3005-c760-4129-a8df-64f38cba6ad9/dejexolomerazadisabekalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://87c8fc71-818b-4167-bf0d-2ac3bc49ffd1.filesusr.com/ugd/f9d4cd_f4ceedca02b745468d9bf259f19337c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/194dbdbf-b6cc-4df9-ae08-4f65231f146a/is_cyberpunk_2077_better_on_ps5_or_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa3bb5c3-2bd4-4791-9e2a-6e31d5009b04.filesusr.com/ugd/60e703_0a3f6cee20ea40daa774eda5020410d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kisepupiregeseb.rf.gd/ronomano.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE850 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 9b44cc1beeec172fbfa2bef819d94736aea1dfd8d5954e30aa24d3f2a61e596d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9FF 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 4f3556aaf8c49862200109e8689f098a14dd3f335acf7a9fe9ae824e21353af5
font_02_sfnt_off00012118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12118 16184 bytes
SHA-256: f375f760f39963ce4bd6e9eb2d56ec9aee132766bcb2b6ca8a90c51d53fc5f7d