Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72c54775d6edb082…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-02-19 23:18:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ac92d0d9fc7c60b5ddbe2224e495a32a SHA-1: b7d43036cf6ea2a0d612af27d58b5df8f9e54764 SHA-256: 72c54775d6edb0825b495af82f3cb140acd2151b208526a5f71670a552d10894
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with several pointing to disposable or suspicious domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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/strik?utm_term=how+to+get+boomerang+link%2527s+awakening+switch
    • http://drawer.icu/auto_parts_finders_pty_ltdkw9gy.pdf
    • http://shop-onlain.fun/jipedamuxwgg0r.pdf
    • https://nodepuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134518199/kuwib.pdf
    • http://madewithsunshine.com/left_atrial_pressure_waveforms0g7v0.pdf
    • http://discount50.pro/sharkbite_codes_october_2020m0qrt.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wedegetuso/igYQVkt/bozamavixunejorabixido.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • http://repajazofuwide.epizy.com/because_i_got_high_chipmunks.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gawabog/amazon_kindle_ebook_publishing_guidelines.pdf
    • http://lojanapijavavo.rf.gd/5113194957.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dobesogum/73223837478.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/turip/89857920050.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2b7.bin
ed30f03a445654ac3f697b16f722cb82bf0065577ed9dfe9d3d6decf42b33afd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B7 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010496.bin
297c218305e5a2810ff947e1d6ca16dca02e91994140a2d0787d342b1a018c3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10496 10328 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127af.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AF 4324 bytes