Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74dda37408947578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-04-12 14:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: dfedccba2974b84bf0df6520b9151072 SHA-1: bd48e522ec28d44159a439d6491de38ed4a94143 SHA-256: 74dda37408947578426e6a017c3a8e5c28abc80b3ee1c8cfcafc70059c0151e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a common search query, designed to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://xajibur.ru/strik?utm_term=does+amazon+echo+work+with+logitech+harmony PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezizejaropu/iiiawjU/40673996997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wadoruzog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379034/butevinuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalhallyu.com/gavosesewafaretawes5vul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vurejowug.mypressonline.com/81945420506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/revogonesox/83ijJUs/mopanilufetero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4502188/normal_6011e75d7b510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xefitopabez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865339/jekovuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xagunetoxa/hchdhea/monster_hunter_world_companion_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pejelurim.getenjoyment.net/pdf_split_offline_tool.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371013/normal_5fc99af4de6e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavupujewefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631736/lejogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369769/normal_60663ae667d72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biwiroxefamir.mywebcommunity.org/causes_of_protein_energy_malnutrition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494883/normal_5fe25ec1797be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391308/normal_6032e17c1dda7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zexaloguf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576330/rudoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452587/normal_5fc70849487f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superheatbelt.xyz/hp_officejet_4500_not_printing_clearly5zxjl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470400/normal_5fff9ec61dac0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/simikitivo/ji0gijj/slot_machines_near_me_open.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lixepupo/5hgheQr/nopafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dasobiviwadodaj.atwebpages.com/learn_python_for_beginners_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wudemexa.myartsonline.com/90127317034.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB81 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 39035e63ee85f58fbba15449a6ff278d86e91c83c807b824107b88d49d521256
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3F 11060 bytes
SHA-256: d65df3a2480f5b9cfa2cda5273dcc66fa75026de7a245695f7540332f7249182
font_02_sfnt_off00012449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12449 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7