Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44fac3529abf4644…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-03-08 19:17:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: eb74cfc697ca31de0c061833ffe304b4 SHA-1: 85d35f24fca3ff4fa5ea45ae825035735902601a SHA-256: 44fac3529abf4644e1ab2ecae3c908af6d5448392d935febe9498b16d0470001
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document is designed to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=common+acids+list+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://baltika-trans.ru/49684920410l6fuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rujuramokukavet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739146/a0e4d25084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pojapusevipuzu.mypressonline.com/whirlpool_refrigerator_water_filter_2_home_depot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewixazupeteti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455636/kisunijefis_denufufomobalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480155/normal_5feb0d1fdd066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandeepsadyora.com/the_48_laws_of_power_torrent3oghx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fionainthefield.org/254105354093b4p4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavelizopepi.mywebcommunity.org/how_does_city_of_lost_souls_end.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dosaxixapaxa.medianewsonline.com/nukusugakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445107/normal_600755c041497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpverifedbadges.com/aashiqui_2_jukebox_songstdrln.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildber.store/baby_video_song_with_lyricsmls6v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385217/normal_6039fedd56ba5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485696/normal_600318ff5cb92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intereriia.com/how_to_run_a_python_file_in_visual_studio_code_terminalbbly2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bionatur.space/norasibawivujoxaduxe9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-tochka.ru/galaxinesenamavr8fcj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuwamelewupo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131589/0af57aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://xejobutek.onlinewebshop.net/58259866560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ac56fc1-f7ee-4366-9cb2-1681469c68ee.filesusr.com/ugd/b914b5_2291a36e3e3140818cc2bc155ddc3a5d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://50b44c92-959e-4a15-bf83-93d6b2b518d6.filesusr.com/ugd/3ed44c_fa315e0794644a288f0c26ac2a8b15cf.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC0 4896 bytes
SHA-256: aecbaef7f4e03f52b0edd597481599e71583dc43c25abc45ef6667f18bd1a067
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB49 11904 bytes
SHA-256: 7544e09589b1b4e138a050dc815d297d2b8a566da7999ebc60c4ea5af30c6aa4
font_02_sfnt_off000122b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B8 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 9bff4e6d7f8cbe2dc7292347b18f75d0d8e6bccc0e080da3143d66f69ef3d0e3
font_03_sfnt_off00013793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13793 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34