Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ef1748c2c593189…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.7 KB Created: 2021-03-21 00:10:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: c8d64cdaeb0b3b3ac777c9ed71469817 SHA-1: 524c11dcdfca9055e2c45e90b9273f11ff6bbd66 SHA-256: 3ef1748c2c5931896a565ebc79c0293dc6380f71f44b5d87e6445248e746efd0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a large number of outbound links, and the ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords like 'pizzazz answer key pre algebra' which likely serve as a lure to attract victims.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 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://soxebez.ru/wix?keyword=pizzazz+answer+key+pre+algebra PDF link annotation
    • http://faxusigeroles.sportsontheweb.net/bawal_bastos_law.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380070/normal_6037aee977680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikatufezido.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338368/movijibegam-losexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fosulavale/hiihij1/mozatutasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367625/normal_601d05cd0c0ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413866/normal_6025a9522e95b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litisenos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071047/taliwokifidepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zofagopipowi/cTSygjd/modern_heavy_duty_tractor_farming_simulator_3ds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larijasetejupaz.mypressonline.com/zuzekulotunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477615/normal_5ff60d71a97df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369183/normal_600aa29133184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491152/normal_601a9b68ea839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kivubuzer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135332577/joresa_xowoxuwesavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofirixubutibi.getenjoyment.net/30012977931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365582/normal_6017f716031a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6b551870-9d71-4c88-87ac-30bafd697196.filesusr.com/ugd/b27e13_7a10e559214944ada995efb9feefddb2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bamonoxo.onlinewebshop.net/fifth_third_bank_job_application_status.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://45ed8376-e832-497f-ab20-0a31924dc5db.filesusr.com/ugd/4b7290_3346e5615c6446d39531b449fcefcf43.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5053e88e-9e18-4719-890c-32a1cca0295d.filesusr.com/ugd/411503_5d44bbc8e905470c94e08ac6f2b0aa95.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0001b4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B4B0 3200 bytes
SHA-256: 907c585593f44de88d377eb3435c58764ff345674866264af8290570ba9dca8c
font_01_sfnt_off0001c02f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C02F 5436 bytes
SHA-256: c1dbf4f1bc87e1369fe05d92311bce545e62a27a446a34354b3a91bbb15e33c3
font_02_sfnt_off0001d2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D2DF 12420 bytes
SHA-256: 14531c3ba9859006eba67034af07d83bf24ae76a21750c189a45bc42655f8324