Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63ca6041b57c0a42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB Created: 2021-03-17 05:35:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 8549ba8cf9b02354a6d0deb467433192 SHA-1: 9fee5b0b8014456ce92c02f5d43976b90204ff7d SHA-256: 63ca6041b57c0a42c8ed0df854d1481d07f8646be76679d8b40cead0570dbcf2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains an embedded URL that redirects to a suspicious domain, identified as a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to the embedded URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=vet+microbiology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://supobesopo.mygamesonline.org/tuvomamodepojol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memisada.mygamesonline.org/fender_passport_venue_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijubigatusurov.scienceontheweb.net/90689064100.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/1d08e5cd-be73-4bf3-a515-fa233c02962c/lobojebukoxunetono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2e3341e-bcbd-4931-9b20-c850a45074a6/combining_like_terms_and_distributing_practice_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22e9339c-04cb-4d8e-9427-5d60daa43d84/28644886408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibuziw.epizy.com/abdominal_routine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijazatomowov.epizy.com/buffalo_wild_wings_restaurant_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4960c0c4-38b5-4c4d-af23-dc668dce252d/51214227138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/206dadea-4e3b-4a2e-8aca-f82b8d7270fb/how_to_apply_just_for_me_texture_softener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb017128-e2df-404a-b964-007787e306f8/18769247338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozidijapepore.atwebpages.com/how_much_weight_can_a_2011_ford_ranger_tow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewadereweben.epizy.com/pasupavorixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0cda0b25-acb9-4ea0-9be1-0fb8f9b66954/what_is_synthesizing_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f600bfa3-664a-42c8-b215-9b6a11577a33/hoover_power_scrub_elite_carpet_washer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/49b31a86-93f1-42f0-9130-4f24ad1c9701/9179262461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d15b678-6b0c-474b-8cb4-3836be764e65/begowogija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef1ed14c-2d96-453d-9722-a7e5dbeeb1ac/99508701134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9be25841-a844-4c63-9f86-707edf11fed0/vevigixarivafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7ae2b6a-2941-4a5c-bcd6-f33cad2afe26/hp_2013_ultraslim_docking_station_ethernet_port_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a54a7248-bb61-4888-8b92-ec4cdca076d1/aircraft_maintenance_engineer_resume_examples.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_off00017579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17579 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 9abed6e2c6cad09f634e3959e60fbec797818883e6a2d1f898c724a51f67ed8e
font_01_sfnt_off00018774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18774 11628 bytes
SHA-256: a13f8d3e32282ca0413f17d50f802a97f81d8aecfe4ccb44f999ed23d0f98aa4