Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f20c4112243a023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-03-28 08:40:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: b79c06a8b5f3d97f5d4025c397fde3fa SHA-1: 8ccd4c78d83c0c19e1943d10d26eaca0a67ac5b8 SHA-256: 4f20c4112243a023fb8df60ce1f960f8bc46f92d026709edbc8d2bd01fa5864d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a social engineering attack designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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=antihistaminicos+lactantes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422897/normal_6017ae437a86c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramcopyrigtservice.com/rowebuogdaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mapetidul/beXujbf/birthday_cake_ideas_for_baby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/matikefateri/VeOggeY/botukumikevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zobevewobuka.22web.org/interactions_1_grammar_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366660/normal_5fe4e735a0064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478415/normal_605a6a4ac9653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawiwitifa/hiBhejf/repeated_measures_anova_reporting_apa_style.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandeepsadyora.com/como_es_un_lider_populista8wyb0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begdas.fun/jojevikuxtzlus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xibidodoko/LihijI0/pocket_veto_vs_veto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kagelemovo/iflkOjj/plants_vs_zombies_2_online_no_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412173/normal_60187fd53fe07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setlyb.online/defivinunuvigazac78iv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d887ea54-dc0b-4983-a757-fd4e4fb5d029/shimano_ultegra_di2_r8050_ss_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5c126656-fc4f-473b-8c99-11744d2e1b96.filesusr.com/ugd/abd8ec_8676d91edaf54d0fb5466a3c4d88c8f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://biguvuxurezuto.epizy.com/crosswords_with_friends_answers_6_12_18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://011f98f8-b45f-4578-a2fd-466b530f7845.filesusr.com/ugd/74e905_d156c5f95a6d4b56a73ab3a963a0787e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7ffe38df-ef78-47a1-8632-a9c579db478a.filesusr.com/ugd/8ff694_b3acc2a1c5c3415598b19a252c035686.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7fee5b72-7753-463d-8a9f-d79e804114b1/how_long_to_cook_beef_jerky_in_the_dehydrator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/270c2b85-d396-4505-be87-70f54ab6f15d/primo_bottom_load_water_dispenser_cold_water_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nekofixas.rf.gd/happy_birthday_song_in_tamilanda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e48741b-d635-4a22-9f37-1a7dc37a717b/51764526016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/baf9392e-ca15-4df6-9160-8eacd5a437ef/what_exercise_is_good_for_strengthening_bones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bb491b24-4c81-4ccc-8daa-bf1baeb171c2.filesusr.com/ugd/93c935_6080a4d01c404a9ba21fd14c342c81c9.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_off0001204e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204E 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 286b864eb4be08d41051f91ffb56dff4c4cd9e2fdd2e5512f43cd86cca03df62
font_01_sfnt_off0001322d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1322D 13068 bytes
SHA-256: 8b636d350db2b07c541fe6d4c6c984616f53d1fb552f78bcb260f657b26a614d