Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45257cfad77c1133…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-04-05 22:55:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: b3150e31f5ca89812d5757e2466268d7 SHA-1: a3ad1f4747172d0940be1da664fd8de2f547ab0f SHA-256: 45257cfad77c11338af755565d6cf637d8787db05ecf37165077c398dbf0ed46
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDFs, and specifically employs a lure to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites, potentially disguised as a necessary update.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485004/normal_60613431dd782.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389599/normal_6060bd443e09e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390350/normal_5fe679ba70e04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495043/normal_5fd2181720313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitafoged.medianewsonline.com/56492225263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405662/normal_6041e4c2d94c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/figesuweno/cjfiahi/where._discover_cultural_events_in_your_city.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451019/normal_60569294d3978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/milujawago/ibyNjsv/oil_rig_wallpaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408703/normal_60535511d6b17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neriwor.medianewsonline.com/24836399358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467007/normal_603f80cf3e9fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491665/normal_600515db21cb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444358/normal_60473aec1a9b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/mO-5lVq97NI/wb?keyword=zoom%20video%20conferencing%20guidelinesPDF link annotation
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/genedesowul/can_u_use_in_formal_writing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voropa/39489673476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gazivemon/island_song_violin_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/saziwijaxodav/devil_hunter_lost_ark_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zolerazowubow/quotation_follow_up_email_template_to_client.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0cc2a7d0-6f33-4335-9ec9-554d9418487e.filesusr.com/ugd/cb4a18_001460c419da4f4cb173824912edfd62.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6f847715-c85a-45d9-ae5c-7c68cc800588.filesusr.com/ugd/6e100b_0a942f28602a4fa99a7d0729224c7e9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99ca13e2-8bf0-45b2-93fa-bbfb519f101f.filesusr.com/ugd/5392be_b0b4ac821f774eebbd22982e7fa137a7.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F0 5148 bytes
SHA-256: d3b02d75ced3650c28dde4ef6328b202e6f9322d534cac93c825eb81c8fbfa50
font_01_sfnt_off00011370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11370 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 4d4e6ebf3e7c1e179fd3d8d38093591d00ba56f7855bd6c576e65ab0a29a9117