Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d368d5eabdd7ccb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 19:12:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 59d89766899e07b5ca0decce9b28ad51 SHA-1: bcf435b0549a606ffe1e75bfd3ec7e255036369e SHA-256: 5d368d5eabdd7ccbd3ac43abc58c4b617916d2055e79fe6da2c797f8f1538536
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm and has been flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. The embedded URL 'https://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=colchester+sixth+form+application' suggests a phishing or social engineering lure related to a 'Colchester sixth form application'. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external URIs point towards an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=colchester+sixth+form+application PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xurokagozagu/g8MtPYG/ni_crio-_9074_datasheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wemerofada/8jhbGWb/flocabulary_figurative_language_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pejazadajenatew.getenjoyment.net/venice_italy_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450884/normal_600067ec36eb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448551/normal_5fedc71d88c9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371005/normal_603ad32fe5aeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimezobot.getenjoyment.net/why_does_my_ukulele_strumming_sound_bad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446398/normal_5fd246a1a0de2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479254/normal_5ff17fdddebd2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484641/normal_601d958189f71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pewekelexu.mygamesonline.org/dukunasarurevesuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rinilafexowi/ojijdw7/eaas_esteroides_anabolicos_androgenicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367919/normal_6031cec03739b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulopoboxefon.scienceontheweb.net/fujitsu_scansnap_ix500_scanner_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikovil.mywebcommunity.org/lyrics_of_seven_years_by_lukas_graham.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://0f7a2101-273c-4f7f-b1fd-079d1ad923c1.filesusr.com/ugd/a7ea6f_d18eae75153f4b27aabd2ef8ad98e8fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aee666f7-65d2-4416-8089-42e5bd85255d.filesusr.com/ugd/c4036c_c16dabf243de4e4a92261a3d796a6d6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://litorow.myartsonline.com/2007_honda_civic_si_coupe_oil_capacity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liraperuwuw.atwebpages.com/asthma_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0bef8565-087b-457a-960c-b0529baba50c.filesusr.com/ugd/638000_151f3fc283c7492c83349f700b5230d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6bb2b61b-82bf-473b-8365-63ddb02ddbdd.filesusr.com/ugd/d55797_777ebfc12e7441e497248a7b09ace55a.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_off0000ea1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1F 5136 bytes
SHA-256: e7903a4fd0e8eb192e4259ce4413590543b568985916cd8776210088643726f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB67 11508 bytes
SHA-256: a7c404f3df5d5583a748ee0e7fde46197bcac59c5f86d2fcfe2d722eaba23434
font_02_sfnt_off000122a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333