Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48bf3074ccd80de8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-06-02 23:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: edb9c3d595e468879abb297b14f27278 SHA-1: 75cd72d3dfe870d950d7b62255463a2f9bb6cbfd SHA-256: 48bf3074ccd80de8555383a753217ba8c93c930428f1b578a30a2f09e39c354d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity, likely aimed at redirecting users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=intermittent+fasting+guide+while+working+out PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4487197/normal_60b2bf51a6edb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407724/normal_6003623222b7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuviwavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606254/8e959331b80149a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mowolonob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874237/ad63be59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466679/normal_6043927611e68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494875/normal_60382a60917fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448540/normal_603b6f710cd8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500417/normal_605ddff7cecd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganegekisawaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406809/5521391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500001/normal_5fe75afee4036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381544/normal_603917b03cfa7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365576/normal_5fcd1d07a46a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409609/normal_5fec910c003ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483354/normal_604d9f500323b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388046/normal_5ff25bdb2bb0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://betosaxugawi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144453378/life_sciences_grade_12_question_papers_and_memorandums_download_2016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finatin.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144501483/how_i_spent_my_winter_vacation_essay_200_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dadilotofexi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144516003/dizupimitejufilenereji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magobok.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144497793/calculus_example_problems_with_solutions.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_off0000dbfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFA 5412 bytes
SHA-256: efb457bd180197800b954cb90c9461478a874c38f88448fc3588a47e4fc898be
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4A 10348 bytes
SHA-256: e1695f14bd488df154b23d45953a9ffb0a54b041c21b5c95ff62c61b0dc14e91