Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44760b242ecc273d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-03-15 20:41:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 7aab4d6f3a704671c1fd1e306cc725dc SHA-1: b025e9f6ea84f5679fe43a7270ecc5db63e8802a SHA-256: 44760b242ecc273d48c9684ac730f1d80f30f2d1f003d229f51331ce166ea880
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Sparknotes Julius Caesar summary video', likely designed to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=sparknotes+julius+caesar+summary+video PDF link annotation
    • https://dufibivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346242/kidizubowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piturerakilapes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775197/7453576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gekitudofu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134403565/pilivurepijaponunoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492880/normal_602a5a1c7c2f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xodaxedepapopox.mygamesonline.org/nisejokoxupowidiwilurila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wigalefu/eSjhjhm/55188526842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369786/normal_5fc59320ec546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463287/normal_5fe3dd248e909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bafexobis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041027/giwepamadejev_fapodil_lakima_tisuniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://logomuwijo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738525/dejetubozolefa_vinizemijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393190/normal_600b8edf23623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/totimujid/gjhbijK/guess_the_emoji_trivia_and_guessing_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zazorin.scienceontheweb.net/puxikonokukalemowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fc0b292-d730-4cf2-9fa8-85291aeafd8e/81471691030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zijiwaras.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_install_weber_grill_burner_tubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae49b737-51ba-4d94-ad2a-7c75be5a8171/37696198932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f18d3913-2c1a-4717-a13e-0b7f308aa451/how_to_trade_for_free_on_coinbase_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/484abc75-f947-4658-b1af-b7eb6bd0fad3/62838060233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nununad.myartsonline.com/engineering_change_management_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d9d7a22-5de9-4717-ae56-6bfc43ffda11/55323176710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d763118-1dcc-4d0e-a70d-7dd183db1033/the_poisonwood_bible_barnes_and_noble.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40ef2805-302d-4b92-b3bc-c445538a349a/thirteen_reasons_why_season_3_episode_13_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06c048be-5395-4aa3-a594-f81f00bb1009/vemisiwudedoriviradejinu.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 4b7b21b1a964c0d20b68dd42b0bf65e73e3f44f0ad63b0c66eb42b8330817265
font_01_sfnt_off0000f391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF391 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 38abe42512caf370ac27e00ee343e72a9f832df1080a2ceac74fb4d5eeeaa374