Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e0b0921b5a2886a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-04-06 02:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: c1ce3ced2df0b4d0513383fca1d9f791 SHA-1: b48fc46d1bab07ead400c2c66a8ba8a3bbd7ab8d SHA-256: 4e0b0921b5a2886a904d445637184ee73fd422289306519e92b048f7097a9eef
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a tactic to obscure malicious links within a large number of seemingly legitimate ones. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=cfa+ethics+curriculum+pdf', likely leading to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=cfa+ethics+curriculum+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/simikitivo/6Mnjjij/20722049782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jisokemefaz/kgjfeTC/nimuvipokexelimamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pemenixa/zxhhijx/228951510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/juzogimuju/jexhdgj/neighborhood_watch_website.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumegebopim.iblogger.org/tisimoxinuxesefotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zizenozi/dig1geG/12168467326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorewipa.scienceontheweb.net/13583737216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wekaradukuve/B8jcZih/fuwubuxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noperizapewo/fEpROji/english_phrasal_verbs._vocabulary_builder_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vunelebu/djfFij5/nubofitivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zigixukotezu.epizy.com/nojoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ccf7009-d490-41a5-a365-81eaebb66dba/how_to_read_financial_reports_for_dummies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb294460-a639-4216-b139-3f7371e0cce4/48283878021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://validexa.epizy.com/zosepexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajomapujozokux.onlinewebshop.net/termination_letter_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe0185c1-ded6-4ebf-ac41-83f94ec5e4a2/17699498289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinamagowejut.epizy.com/batman_arkham_origins_pc_trainer_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazivaf.epizy.com/serivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiwedekepumepup.epizy.com/pibimologovosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deroselewem.epizy.com/sosumozaxogepetede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetiloguj.rf.gd/medidas_cautelares_cpp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b40a45c-e4a5-4ade-a333-1a7331b7fec4/tepudalaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zefixufedinokas.epizy.com/developer_android_portal.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_off0000f687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF687 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 59adee54367edad0b15b4b371750c8af9be6fb1b0bbb5703259f337017bdd368
font_01_sfnt_off00010863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10863 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 26d189f6cfe23b255ead7f6604400cd717a52238dd4bc25a4b4075ebb95d3bc8
font_02_sfnt_off00012dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFA 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 4e74c91031341c06b915725d15f052d77c33d75b7b3102a675f469d94d5ad539