Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 477e65f8ec053522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-04-01 06:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 9ba667012c4a713c5a2bce75296877e1 SHA-1: 3b324dc6013d6ec2af419f490a364cb0590db2e2 SHA-256: 477e65f8ec053522cb77f82c1de97c4f73b34278d679ed5d1aa3ac471088564e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including external URI links and a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is a malicious PDF, likely used for phishing or to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs point to suspicious domains, indicating a potential attempt to deliver a second-stage payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=aashto+pavement+design+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jusukigib.sportsontheweb.net/aromatic_nucleophilic_substitution_reaction_mechanism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baxogujefavug.iblogger.org/certification_arborist_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dozixolabizije.iblogger.org/zasorobesivotodaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiselavanebep.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_take_off_kitchenaid_mixer_attachments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/CeW8Yie/rimidozilitimonofitiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dofofigeniso/ayhbkig/vr_e_voce_login.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/webepinovet/jdjctie/best_music_player_for_iphone_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigapajuxijado.mywebcommunity.org/asme_b16_5_flange_dimensions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/febutatesu/KhejerW/diversifying_selection_definition_biology_quizlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumuxonej.22web.org/polymorphism_in_genetics.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
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zubuwujoxom/78247536895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wizakokowe/efsios_hernandes_dias_lopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/popilo/cub_cadet_model_2166_parts_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/golepe/little_drummer_boy_snare_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b615eccc-4413-4b1d-8109-ede925130a83.filesusr.com/ugd/0994f9_ceaccba2a7bb4e72babc4011104ba7a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://59b7e61f-9850-45ee-add2-e9646db267e4.filesusr.com/ugd/5b9365_dc7f6d94bda6494f9d6aab7a1541fe49.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixuduwonifa/cat_simulator_kitty_craft_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://00eaa6b3-f026-4720-b00f-fafb40066352.filesusr.com/ugd/d498be_dd75f7310faf4fd296eea09c59659f47.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tiduro/35209875725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusazonawo.epizy.com/janigebekival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b32e410f-f365-4205-840f-53103702c783.filesusr.com/ugd/51ece5_1fb7d9459e70475486e43d2a2a0e27f5.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001062b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062B 5288 bytes
SHA-256: fd4d7abed5729fb294eb96a47a5c428f833bf7428bee7aedc82b26311198d476
font_01_sfnt_off00011818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11818 11788 bytes
SHA-256: 1734421b643c9fe89cfc9799988fffd8f41e08ad7bcd366a56ba2632db8afa7a
font_02_sfnt_off00014046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14046 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f