Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 541e8154d86d9009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-06-04 17:07:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f19e54bf4559d193fcb7257938d52467 SHA-1: 2169949cdc3be962c193e00666f9013d89aedba1 SHA-256: 541e8154d86d90093a97b64ea34e70d705c5a6d9c5368d21d66c12275e570143
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, with a primary one pointing to 'infrive.ru', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure disguised as a worksheet answer key. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support the conclusion that this document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/pbw?utm_term=lab+equipment+practice+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://xesisezedowajax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134729639/3343186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenaxegib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583113/luwudolole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454182/normal_600a12ac22381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469638/normal_5fe611565aa38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xagigerabep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483632/buvewavisawiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sizolasipape.pbworks.com/f/voteredosusipotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitixofipoxu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144537360/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_hacks_ps4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lijegazoz.pbworks.com/f/cost_to_replace_flame_sensor_on_furnace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felefejimax.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144580704/62236926978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lerepaxa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144585174/baxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://junerew.pbworks.com/f/92812795516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fokopaviwu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144464247/81326468676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xifilipisi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144413508/98317278947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vafobotigef.pbworks.com/f/gaxapinonajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajisaparev.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144418959/poliboloduwewonarodunozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liwuvedesisu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144528012/distributive_property_puzzle_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demopefo.pbworks.com/f/can_you_play_cards_against_humanity_with_3_players.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_off0000d18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18B 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 6a95585c19aa1b9c57d3432bb2a64e4b8022d851af8027a922f4d4b5563c37a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE490 9936 bytes
SHA-256: fa6afd7e0a415cc97f6929ea4f88da1559f74129804c01a577cd6b97faa7c117