Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44d7d985811a9fe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 00:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 5bc984e2ec40eda6442159563c42ade1 SHA-1: 64699d1aee7f2355449d5fd3697175ee63e475ec SHA-256: 44d7d985811a9fe738106ec58d209af74c955c8b2877a1ec00f8fbd995c1bbb0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/pbw?utm_term=integration+formulas+for+jee PDF link annotation
    • https://xulijijexam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453336/xirexapumosile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449777/normal_603ffc4feb4d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nijupafubowawiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012726/zonizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446651/normal_605c1206208f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waguwejulunesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135301122/5516052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wujorimumoba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134676457/e1215f6958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450727/normal_600be4e93dc78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365536/normal_60698167171d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzujufod.pbworks.com/f/how_to_fix_a_mini_maglite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c6312b6-32d0-4c3a-b553-53b7f2bf2301/lord_of_the_rings_4k_download_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitixofipoxu.pbworks.com/f/let_reviewer_prof_ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/058a1030-7dd1-4091-a1f5-be5c9d2e756e/55549161670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0db834af-ff25-463e-9397-63a44aed35c8/como_calcular_reajuste_de_aluguel_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6e9457d-5011-4e17-86ce-807a305450ed/wewiwufojawepuzuwamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevuteled.pbworks.com/f/what_is_enthalpy_change_of_neutralization.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/426e5ded-4846-4ec1-b6cd-549ffebde4a8/81822974594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3134733e-0eda-466e-a914-3084d07e7fdf/77725788990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magobok.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/145140036/74215920385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c95ecac-a4d4-4bcb-89f6-417d119d7d51/hitachi_c10fsh_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8c36aa2-5753-4594-9a53-fc64c3b096fe/zexeramifux.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_off00010543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10543 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 395f139f33ebee603136e2336a5a1a0668d15c0523ddcc336894e1781af58da5
font_01_sfnt_off00011690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11690 14476 bytes
SHA-256: 8c25ebaeb49ccad3b0436bccac74dfa60737fd3982c0e0c4df4d2564e34aa41b
font_02_sfnt_off000147ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EC 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 44cdc7259475b7fbce7492e0d15478775d6caed443b5c3a3d9ed0b3ea97372af