Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90a18aab75c2b5c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.6 KB Created: 2021-03-10 08:41:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: cb2a8df3dc0bb08935912cf5a4406058 SHA-1: 6d84b848a7c048e28b0bb98d2d68a0a50549311c SHA-256: 90a18aab75c2b5c8a4c7c17dadbeec1c08de05f0df06917bc906bee7808e3601
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a high volume of links on potentially untrusted domains, consistent with an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://xezojetit.ru/wix?keyword=macromolecules+worksheet+life+substances+notes PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fodexuxefeba/3tPhcXO/1438966872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kidatufo/cjjAPjd/laser_quest_danvers_cost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468296/normal_5fff0634221a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427093/normal_5fef47fa6875f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485012/normal_601251bec7865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446017/normal_601062494a95d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pijuvedozuw/BhfjeKg/legend_vs_zombies_java_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4f0f5a39-0a2f-4cdf-b4e4-40a644fad8b9.filesusr.com/ugd/2024fe_f35340178af64c3f8babe858f15c9bfa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c7f0abc7-d23b-482d-bd16-0771495bb668.filesusr.com/ugd/bb13a2_397aba16a76f4f96aea00568c5f4583d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8cb7d91d-449c-40ad-87ec-f13999d41520/57234851332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1d3e036-d9a1-4be1-9d2f-eedbb581cb22.filesusr.com/ugd/3ce946_6d78d324a0dd4ec8bed9ea77d5125b04.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44dd6259-7513-41c7-b2f1-b2b1fc385d2e.filesusr.com/ugd/63022f_39e2cb16ddc24fd9a1a223b799dc6531.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://40e214c1-1950-44e8-a195-e2c6eeb23253.filesusr.com/ugd/a517f4_b6046d0798564611ba119c9540c2945c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a61cecf-ae04-4a3f-a7cb-46bd80d934ad/canon_sx700hs_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a120dd84-0be3-418f-935b-775b4ec23123/dell_inspiron_6400_battery_driver_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbf82146-8d1c-42a3-8e56-a7b608c7a90f/muroxinejavupelasixofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://994180ce-385f-4272-9833-4a204a825e0f.filesusr.com/ugd/ec0c41_57e944f17b7b409f98912c18b6463faa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8569cc17-8b2a-4187-ace0-95b0550b99f0.filesusr.com/ugd/d6eede_6d633bf8756749a3a35c3ecfd4db3ff6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://29aa9d28-cc9d-45fc-8d86-3718b5881c84.filesusr.com/ugd/74c34a_5a475e382e8840e383f5b605034d9c10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://793776f3-68b4-44d3-947a-596ce2c6f652.filesusr.com/ugd/4e977a_7a3cccd2431c4d7881cb637c89e7178d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f7e05ffc-afae-4d19-be15-7e9c659e5e5f.filesusr.com/ugd/72f62b_ceee9943f8a147a6acdb9a20cb0634ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5f73919c-aa8b-4812-a2f7-3305b535f564/foundations_of_finance_8th_edition.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_off00020424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20424 5420 bytes
SHA-256: df714c70922e200ffd19967b061b4d7fa6f33f3240b46bbf53933d6b5ebe3d3f
font_01_sfnt_off00021689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21689 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 71642122754a41b1ca1459148ab473c2a28368fedb80b7e5134cad34bc49c256