Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f2dde21e7cb4970…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-03-18 23:10:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ecd0a87622ba76e08a03972a7fed60fa SHA-1: 095f9d6d8c330ab71dd6d8d592180bf84f0dfd36 SHA-256: 5f2dde21e7cb4970ecc16cbb272b236011cb1a316da7b0c8c1340523f6394c8f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=elara+marsden+park+design+guidelines PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zanotunuzi/hbVWwHi/55816478917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481273/normal_601dbd53cc072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386086/normal_5fda6fbf21df3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zigimovovu/GjkBTjj/back_to_the_moon_movie_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/labifikup/ggdfdTL/get_followers_on_instagram_free_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450512/normal_5ff2540913aa2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e510c2d5-567e-4a96-89ff-abc18316baf7.filesusr.com/ugd/8a9bcc_f136d583d7f944589bff45dbdf6df74f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5d3a357a-25b2-4459-9cd8-210b235f7b36.filesusr.com/ugd/45e30f_c01645688b5c41328882726aa498a1f5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a2149e7-ca7f-4e7c-a584-0e483de6f3af.filesusr.com/ugd/9219f8_35772d15bac742d98ab270bba4a478d0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nafibanefexex/13195872980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1482387f-61d8-47e1-b538-9b7f1e8b89fb.filesusr.com/ugd/538d67_29bbaf76031a4bcb9761bc04b5bd4052.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://91506351-5699-48ce-85e7-8e7d071f4e87.filesusr.com/ugd/d775a9_08d4334d4b2044a8ad93ab3702d016e5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sefipa/zefonomawenibasalubaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://32cf4326-ba62-484c-a3ca-05d02c2dd2e5.filesusr.com/ugd/0b46e6_820d0b8e5f2a47c3ada18c7a759b5bf4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tasufagijaremo/bolte_bolte_cholte_cholte_song_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://89d9876f-4e47-4433-ab5b-8da47ae3ae5c.filesusr.com/ugd/37c326_c85abe0b5c98403e98fdd92e92ff600c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e60c805d-b9e1-47fc-b045-983511e9ac1f.filesusr.com/ugd/116bb2_72ae36131653462b9614048f65d30e91.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2eeb51df-07ba-4372-80d9-1ef4646fc7f7.filesusr.com/ugd/6af210_816cf322eb8648a485c9dd1a9118cf67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://204833c8-abda-4421-8777-5048ee7dd919.filesusr.com/ugd/e30b7a_742b75179bb44ea79ac0aea36c424243.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_off0000d7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A7 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 8de384dfb2c0ebb05cb28574f48094d76e03ddc956f82c5231db50f7fc0e0f84
font_01_sfnt_off0000e99a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99A 11312 bytes
SHA-256: e0c2640da167eaa1897f41c112eb61c9ddf667b3aeb27bbe898f48787b169a46