Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83a4028c3f4f132b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-02-26 14:25:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: fcb67e4ed1210577c773141ca642897c SHA-1: 35c8841ea43791fe172c51fec7f459c3b65f7f1a SHA-256: 83a4028c3f4f132bd00c6532517728a7644ba4372b448f8c83bf34f2c1cf40f6
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple external links, with one prominent URL suggesting a lure for a modded application. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/wix?keyword=superstar+smtown+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500883/normal_5feed6e3aa8f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merokiniperoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134691049/914173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viniveba.mywebcommunity.org/hp_elitebook_8570p_not_charging.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nububezobuto.22web.org/wodakegowotizozorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465685/normal_602429e844a68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bopevifobomamak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814579/e2242426317c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berajodisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651265/tovifigeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480898/normal_603291788cdfe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://todosix.epizy.com/4594878631.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_off0000dc76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC76 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 7da51c71de19f0593468f11ec52be72e2d2b835380db092e9d70620f4d4ccf75
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE99 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 8afae8ea274cef769f94fa1e5cd82565806b3eaeb45fc44ce562faac4ada23e3
font_02_sfnt_off00011377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11377 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 1733294cd4efe6eb5a1c38b033a3da0bd69f43be3259469e0667c8323d1c848a