Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c4109e05758a8dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-03-24 05:54:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 65e4f9eb26ad5f425128ceb61db3056b SHA-1: c2287792a0ed8630f67ef8368897066df9276853 SHA-256: 7c4109e05758a8dcdea2c63289f57cde83abc48a3c7ee956c563e228241c8207
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document, identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, contains numerous embedded URLs. The primary URL, 'https://golowaki.ru/wix?keyword=laying+the+foundation+english+answer+key', suggests a phishing or redirection attempt disguised as an answer key. The document's structure and the high number of external links indicate it functions as a link farm designed to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://golowaki.ru/wix?keyword=laying+the+foundation+english+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379362/normal_5fc5952ab52a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408340/normal_603aa92420852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444644/normal_600dc71b1827e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378149/normal_604558892d02b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487194/normal_6034d7af0d673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413016/normal_603d3ffbbde75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467581/normal_604d2c3b27597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411686/normal_5ff4b30ddee2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://govugododuwo.iblogger.org/how_to_reset_asus_router_rt-n14uhp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368481/normal_5fe5c232baac9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448995/normal_60007933d40be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retamos.mygamesonline.org/mucusless_diet_healing_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4422135/normal_5ffe55aeac0ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384160/normal_5fd76be2af4a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenugaguv.medianewsonline.com/atheromatous_corneal_ulcer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewusoluxul.scienceontheweb.net/latest_banking_awareness_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371004/normal_6004a46d0885c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vomematomeze.epizy.com/1227891232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/adcc9f3f-2a13-413f-87e1-010440a8563d/71279456082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3c48e62c-1d4f-4d86-8cc8-393b006ede7b/zuzivowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2fbbe106-c85b-4f98-a71d-b69331accc74/weber_charcoal_grill_rotisserie_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2b98d46-7d85-496f-89db-6a9b3c6af34d/darth_bane_trilogy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posijibanif.epizy.com/kozerawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masusoxowep.onlinewebshop.net/cash_flow_statement_explanation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gubawakelu.onlinewebshop.net/brs_embryology.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_off000123ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AE 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 80501983b650e25eaad48736f6f0d90093113be6846dce65fb76ae967a91c520
font_01_sfnt_off0001360f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360F 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 14709516719a308256cc4f0761443e18651f0677c5c28e831442e43131eacba8