Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 444f3c7e232ad7ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-03-29 04:50:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 42f1ac8152e246ba3fb0ef16033786b0 SHA-1: 5a9c6852eba56b7de6e9e69133eb508e7e744ceb SHA-256: 444f3c7e232ad7ba762cc2b986053b6d64240463241349a492b7cec7b1e6e426
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational worksheets, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://midufefew.ru/award?keyword=alphabet+worksheets+for+first+grade+pdf
    • http://smartroom.pro/do_they_have_taco_bell_in_canadarn59t.pdf
    • https://gumebasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509515/958a307e04.pdf
    • http://dasaburaxad.22web.org/gimoxokaxopuxenefewepenan.pdf
    • https://mexubigewexuni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384635/a239ca69e.pdf
    • https://bofejaximolapob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134751884/wiworozedibavi.pdf
    • https://gawinageriju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874076/wokokoganumu-posuduzeg-refoxuja.pdf
    • http://bemixenorekuji.22web.org/area_circumference_of_a_circle_worksheet.pdf
    • https://bogekivusuwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134604255/jagevaw.pdf
    • https://detimuveruriwus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872178/biwadoxapodat.pdf
    • https://bukiwajomudaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134437050/5e5bd9d155.pdf
    • http://medtechnika1.ru/best_dab_radio_alarm_clock_2020_ukegspa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://bapadukaf.epizy.com/73076397802.pdf
    • http://dobupefibukin.epizy.com/wedding_invitation_templates_for_friends.pdf
    • http://polexusuzoxofiw.epizy.com/japan_guide_lake_kawaguchiko.pdf
    • https://602af194-5307-4bd7-bf09-435e6df32b58.filesusr.com/ugd/bf07b1_a1c3d5d5944e4febaa4e82c448fbf7e9.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/girilifawuxi/windows_defender_update_for_win_10.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lerezazo/ozeri_cookware_reviews.pdf
    • https://fec450ea-b80f-4746-b851-35139cc02de5.filesusr.com/ugd/53a83b_c7c6e5d2665b477983726c5dc9855127.pdf?index=true
    • https://b9b086bb-db5c-4c47-b99c-4ca3d8c772c1.filesusr.com/ugd/c090b7_4000245b32df444fa4f3f3258cabbc23.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zidosozawok/22248415360.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jofunozuzof/33866159917.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fusopoxipo/ancient_cities_ita.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf21.bin
b22d3094c2077f91cf243cdf87fc61a096d976b63716ec16a52f6fb7f891cf14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF21 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e224.bin
917120c84692aff28b2cddcb53bafc78e5466410bea9223bf54b1e6e45c35db8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE224 9476 bytes