Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63e4d9fd0295ffa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-05-31 11:31:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f2bac641befcaa6691ef5320bbad2723 SHA-1: 91921453899485456fbe642f1d7d9c101b11eb0d SHA-256: 63e4d9fd0295ffa65c10971aec85cbc1038b0544da42ab0915faa54159654a9a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to exam preparation questions, likely intended to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://midufefew.ru/123?utm_term=ibps+po+2018+approximation+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368989/normal_603f2a048ada4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369626/normal_5fe9ee19bdc32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tojumemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379390/3513504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotatodekimin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134705716/xupufoduxagaroteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420752/normal_5fff799de537e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wadezadoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970015/nujugofeminaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425768/normal_606c73d0c8402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puwaxitakobesod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109073/8171434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowurudiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438308/4420857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenapejasuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749539/30e1fe74a571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4529780/normal_60b200351be60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386089/normal_5fd11eac14b8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402706/normal_600a1d22b278a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batuzuxiwanokan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134354003/2471595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaxusirawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318026/ranewutuxawe_ribof_fumalowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gajinuware.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597963/jufopesejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d51ea658-fdb6-4c04-815a-8a4041f71f50/how_to_do_graphical_vector_addition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d8650d0-fb35-4ed7-9763-4af0a3047cad/povomamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d0cbf31b-15a8-4786-a733-3242f3f0995d/after_book_series_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de1b4b16-e663-48ed-ad27-09a2da56af2b/toshiba_tv_screen_goes_black_randomly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf3c89de-f921-408f-a19f-0dbab1ab4ae5/45008141161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/845ba7da-61c4-48b4-9afc-12b2ee71e0d1/who_are_the_lead_characters_in_annie.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2C 5948 bytes
SHA-256: beca18052be3650fbebc61954df743a87174b2dc960af4c804d3b777a3462d88
font_01_sfnt_off00011e56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E56 12008 bytes
SHA-256: 8f48cb4a181741aff0ae7785800cd3e2e1e84a53c66650e2b30a5bd2fbc3b783
font_02_sfnt_off0001477e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1477E 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 27dbea658a405d05c7bce15d0828c56848c17d661bcb89c8b15a4334cf5658cb
font_03_sfnt_off00015cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CC6 11672 bytes
SHA-256: ba7d491ce0f67a299dcb66ecac3c27dc7e92e1a795d0260b3619c56d9bbe8215