Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93ce36647a4d1b76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-03-25 01:55:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 7f86c18cf86a2cb5e5434f744d148daf SHA-1: 723f66e42c887d6a7aed5600365497df22dae1a9 SHA-256: 93ce36647a4d1b760cb410eaadce5f1d680eb473d05f2f3bc32ce1696fa30b08
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, combined with a critical ClamAV detection and ML classification, strongly suggests malicious intent. The document body, though corrupted, contains metadata related to 'Age of Empires 2 portable free download', indicating a lure for pirated software, a common tactic for malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=age+of+empires+2+portable+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://gogidexiveje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134762038/4789398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinekagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134855021/bosegopeforuten_nomasaxur_nabegozamizum_fapigokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojenupikubola.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747345/7855867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davokirik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739121/7706836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujibexadubixup.iblogger.org/polarization_of_light_by_double_refraction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://0aa989e7-076c-475f-bc22-fff5ae310860.filesusr.com/ugd/b44be6_35604025883d431486efadbcb8467315.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f635e5d9-31b1-4f19-b758-7a623be10181.filesusr.com/ugd/6cf0f5_d971b17aa53245dc9cf75366344ce8ab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/234102b7-78b7-4ccf-8efa-d4cc241860b4/feeling_words_that_start_with_the_letter_o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc7da684-f75f-4c7d-ab37-879b8e4659cb/dijolawakosuretepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomuvoxibi.epizy.com/cdc_chlamydia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuzifagavezi.epizy.com/58217649097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mawesenasijoser/printable_employee_of_the_month_certificate_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jifesu/aaa_logo_maker_free_with_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nedijowewoded/64185350955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c6506652-bf5e-4f52-be36-03dbfaede22c.filesusr.com/ugd/f74919_f993e7ae6e6e45c4a9e6552c88a315d4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fa202315-5cd5-4006-9a99-7c5d4406650e.filesusr.com/ugd/61804c_945ebd1c070c448691567bd5376d2cd9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dcc20dec-0195-4543-b617-cfb82efd15f0.filesusr.com/ugd/30ea26_8d230a8bdcf94412bc4d31a6d493a6d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bifapekedareb.rf.gd/fingerstyle_guitar_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/39fc534f-6165-4776-8646-acfabd043eaf/51880438427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c227406a-e7c7-4087-8a99-d0314debc3d8/naruto_databook_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/welanisowari/mofamapik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jixabedumusuzet.rf.gd/4302824538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vojapu/86499822891.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_off00010139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10139 5716 bytes
SHA-256: a763fc5d49dec2fd33636053081e833555657a18b894965d06a4044ef5a475fa
font_01_sfnt_off000114ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AC 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 13ff80d60f28bed852ec336f9c1fc9baa05c546bad9cab85fea4665488532c43