Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 771dc486a6ad44c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-03-29 04:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 4ac153128e4f4fd7bcdec0a8516453dd SHA-1: e40eb7a092f46dfe3f7218f1975fe734502cd73f SHA-256: 771dc486a6ad44c76cc829d040bb8611d881a0d3bc2d9843153f00536d46a35f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=ms+project+training+online PDF link annotation
    • https://fofonamid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134869219/nananisimed-revoxolofepi-fawil-gotegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothattendant.com/3247499299o78dt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowimigijik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637135/04960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobauthor.online/nintendo_classic_boxing_gameqphiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/romilononove/xgcBZJ5/guess_the_kpop_song_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bemaxopig/jjehiZB/38095065184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tolebilu/qhiYGib/video_editor_windows_xp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kagivosivozavex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746508/pegowobatejawabafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mobirewin/cupczjc/tinufoganejiveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fagijopi/mDIDHMB/mabavuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liwuzagesasa.22web.org/56652904048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nasedelowose.rf.gd/.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doroxokile.epizy.com/58085103865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defipezisezujor.rf.gd/nikabavanomifakamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xipokawopigigig.epizy.com/arnold_chiari_malformation_type_2_ultrasound.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tilixufevoj.epizy.com/fibre_cement_sheet_fire_rating.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safamulidapi.epizy.com/60917242543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetumerim.rf.gd/26030844216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dupetomumipur.rf.gd/48296798727.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_off0000f8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C3 5184 bytes
SHA-256: fb9de3b354d92907d5ebfcf10f9f7226e9e162bbd6a0834754d9c4c5f2d8e197
font_01_sfnt_off00010a87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A87 12020 bytes
SHA-256: 91c2400018d62edeb8ce9dc49271f3190e45c20e7c85a88c426a50af7966d98b