Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aedd4fd2ff7933e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-03-12 14:42:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: 0fbf3261a992400575e7389c2b0b8791 SHA-1: c9046b34bbd196bc328ac0f7e71a4d04ee20cf20 SHA-256: 7aedd4fd2ff7933e564c3e19a3cc21b25c461e74cde539950b2d5e501f84f042
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to industrial automation, likely serving as a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=cours+automate+programmable+industriel+schneider+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380380/normal_5fdb23491575c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekifek.scienceontheweb.net/jiwabakulerojeravawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367914/normal_5fd6ecd26fab5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://study-english-05.site/91393213557kcmh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462974/normal_600b1d30f01b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4472182/normal_5ffa8e5331f40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zozimevoket/hhqWLjg/7236912940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tibetterrier.ru/aasld_guidelines_2018_cirrhosisoicw9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402956/normal_5fca62ff69a77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vixitatevejiwo.getenjoyment.net/78568572206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410186/normal_5ff36e4d53fa4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lunosupi/cvie4ii/40894819327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dufimogemeka/a3FX9ME/kukipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448719/normal_604387149ee9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4425921/normal_5ffa24301fa88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489057/normal_5fd03dd9b4288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422659/normal_60100707594ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naludibeg/3gjjj2E/turinimebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456389/normal_60331004cebd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426810/normal_6044d3b58659c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axecheat6.xyz/rollercoaster_dash_rush_and_jump_the_trains45yw3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389084/normal_603be1792821c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-news.tech/342793153052revn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kerutadit/i7eEXgc/troll_face_quest_internet_memes_level_34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452837/normal_6030eade8deec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apeech.ru/48710189883mitih.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pabewuvuxaf.onlinewebshop.net/96901573230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxupuxud.myartsonline.com/delta_flight_attendant_jobs_atlanta_ga.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_off0000f2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A5 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 3d88d29078f011283ebe1beb876f2cb8d5178e6e2e2d61d2fe4adaf84bc4e527
font_01_sfnt_off00010589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10589 14924 bytes
SHA-256: 972ad5e767dd0ead9dd1bea84c8e0cb42083f949e1b17c95c70df53c39556541