Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94d7b22e4adc2a09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-05-11 18:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 30782484367361fc87364b9f996ee6a9 SHA-1: bdc17508c3df9cb737bb307d3a5e5c555f19ac34 SHA-256: 94d7b22e4adc2a090595c13920a22dc1b2773995d613797d217e8dabc113b7e9
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing infrastructure. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely prompts the user to install a fake browser update or extension. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=search+bar+google+groups PDF link annotation
    • https://lufisadoxusixa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583632/3826155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noturufupama.iblogger.org/37551271102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puxolulif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356270/solanamasibaxez-vuporifetoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459326/normal_6052410cb6d7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483623/normal_6065ad0408faf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxesim.iblogger.org/53146910482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446790/normal_5fe0fe0e375fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369343/normal_606527274ce4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446263/normal_5fc93f5164b77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459166/normal_5fcbe0656f0cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480423/normal_6017b2f2acb51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491969/normal_605d343cac024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471703/normal_6004086db42c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385647/normal_5ff6860183d69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://40fd9d30-e691-4ad4-9ff9-7de67b304886.filesusr.com/ugd/45b27a_e12b6e14c8f14d8e846cb3ecfb839e47.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad13c8fa-280f-4ad2-9643-5283a01ebd36/how_to_on_heat_mode_in_ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafiduwujiredom.epizy.com/55576993562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jovelinejovadu.epizy.com/jeevan_lakshya_833_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://736f3f86-ac4a-4d06-be6b-3320275ea8ee.filesusr.com/ugd/cd27d0_abfa99105866490d9243b47de349e2bf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://luturuwuxas.epizy.com/kenave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8cf95c0c-f310-4e52-988e-721adfa8c43e/12359519683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a49ed5e-37da-4a3f-a721-a5d8b1038395/42012130514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8271b8e8-1520-4b18-8785-2fafc8cd33e6.filesusr.com/ugd/efc97f_35f255cccfb0417bb1e00bc2d4d04fd4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d6b7b3c7-8429-4d82-9d75-5d5d09e763cc.filesusr.com/ugd/a8c229_78124e8d02f04cb9887657c8f33d8432.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000facc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACC 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 81aa84eb70a4b73a0f4a560eb07e37c8db1e7239a685d346b9a75fd2dfa9651c
font_01_sfnt_off00010d3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3E 11112 bytes
SHA-256: bef4c42c5ccdda70d10622a4dc1463863428ed6ef3a4c97b1e677c3320b0e69e