Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2415979e2deb11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-03-06 06:00:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c94960ae6356e481492600533e22ce5e SHA-1: 893e68d320c4c484eaccf4b775bf8276f2f6d359 SHA-256: 8c2415979e2deb1185d771860387b5c08d2bef5542f7e138b50715c04bea1cc0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, with a significant number pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score further indicate malicious intent. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms this assessment, pointing towards a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=how+to+pass+net+exam+easily PDF link annotation
    • http://nabenopavaz.iblogger.org/84350076330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426822/normal_6017502fa3144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilet-pdd.site/nutrition_an_applied_approach_5th_edition_free_downloadfrbex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsabarca.com/kidotibwa7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461211/normal_602c05f56cbfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evromotors.net/rudekifaxolelxnzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404124/normal_60335e8a53cec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451970/normal_601187868d62d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4371524/normal_5fe2e296a2ced.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namekegosanobus.22web.org/wovuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwulazitu.iblogger.org/28918612448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://2061f665-9309-41a6-981d-137229ee7e60.filesusr.com/ugd/eb2fe6_c2f0bfb5108445b2b619dfa7b4c50899.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sinadi/application_software_sites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7915398d-c9c2-4241-abdb-40cf742e4b8d.filesusr.com/ugd/d4df0f_431caad327d24d6190b1b4fe98126b8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a68e2ff5-bf17-48e3-82d4-ceb975b85758.filesusr.com/ugd/760101_ec7ff3b6960241c88c99b30bf941380c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://abbf68a8-5b21-4996-91be-11266bd273ed.filesusr.com/ugd/9374a7_5f9d50969b28455f8da9e86f626715ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavabi/all_new_apps_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d80868e2-5d34-4dda-9345-0396294a35aa.filesusr.com/ugd/f9fac6_1f088dba82c14635b35c1d1bbf8e29bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b5b764bc-4fc6-48d7-9a4b-423a4d05f225.filesusr.com/ugd/3f2390_cc01bd023c26479e96d1cd2c5c95fdd3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vorasatijede.rf.gd/the_bible_is_the_living_breathing_word_of_god.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5d3a357a-25b2-4459-9cd8-210b235f7b36.filesusr.com/ugd/45e30f_6113edb0ed374dbdb9e49aceec916c0c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7ae52be2-ba3c-41fb-8935-29281088223e.filesusr.com/ugd/affaa6_40ab712f97ef435ebfac1c3e9512597c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://biradenaj.rf.gd/lindsey_stirling_violin_sheet_music_crystallize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gimisorixosu/zafosujusilete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wemofodi/98456856466.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_off00011457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11457 5092 bytes
SHA-256: 963c23721644c124c07773a0a7039021780ccc27fa8ffbb76be16ef32034a296
font_01_sfnt_off000125b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B3 11812 bytes
SHA-256: ddccc3f2570082fe1d374752ac5fe7d87758caea89cdd50ba165539295395b62