Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95a79c5e2372d989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-03-28 01:12:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 42df142a0593b3d67dd766d3ed5e7cb7 SHA-1: 0a4af19b10fb3892763bdacd09a891d4c9a2a0ec SHA-256: 95a79c5e2372d98987a2534c754e153ca95bce5dacaf7cfc322465a1dfe4fcc2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable domains or are used in a link farm, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • 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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=adding+and+subtracting+fractions+with+borrowing+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367959/normal_6012356b555a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vufiwopader.medianewsonline.com/cambridge_international_as_and_a_level_physics_coursebook_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zomasaxejis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134325580/lekune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xugaguf.mypressonline.com/prenatal_physiotherapy_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rupaduwovuw.getenjoyment.net/adverbs_of_manner_and_degree.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408482/normal_60567c4593dbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nozatisesufi.scienceontheweb.net/72330070304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366366/normal_60111ed69bd64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binemipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874238/3041035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484097/normal_6055156884ff0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zegobudipaju.mywebcommunity.org/7422628439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422914/normal_605fb32e2728b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegekonewipure.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135964828/2718782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374013/normal_600830bb74d43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377674/normal_6052ec1115ed1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e2604e0b-f95a-4acb-b53f-a7db3827b2a1.filesusr.com/ugd/225520_1520d3ef319e4273a49cd9208baf4650.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2acf176d-1645-44e4-83be-c67f7ac9af6b.filesusr.com/ugd/e72dd6_6a4d771fd3bf4808b1620aa17a4e8c5e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eb72eaa1-ef55-40a3-a653-f6d21bccf295.filesusr.com/ugd/54913d_66e6ab04c6f947b2b509c505be690ea7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tajiroxajesolut.atwebpages.com/causes_of_flood_in_west_bengal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://662517ce-f374-4037-aebd-99b1dbe00103.filesusr.com/ugd/0c4177_c30f0159114b4d16b16de5c3ebf84b6a.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
    • 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_off0000ec01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC01 5536 bytes
SHA-256: b3a12a0036977f0393761240237a65e94b3471a2d1907f99b5c771b21c5e7dd5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE5 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 9d352d42b9f34e36335c8ef3fbbb6ab4191a245080dc671fd38993cdd16cff41
font_02_sfnt_off0001239f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239F 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2