Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9737d6594f501a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-05-31 15:09:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b7414cfbdf190d1760d4964400c3c356 SHA-1: 8c16459bdef3dec5b1580a4a5cf30f35fcc7b107 SHA-256: 9737d6594f501a63bff9bb018c92b01bac1a9089465f10b13e367d54c9bbcacb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically designed to appear as a document related to anatomy and physiology. It contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirector strategy to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead users to download further malware or engage in phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/pbw?utm_term=anatomy+and+physiology+terms+and+definitions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4423780/normal_5feba2705f608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486522/normal_602b534045797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490133/normal_601fe07a0ad53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384045/normal_5fce228264414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382790/normal_5fc8303778661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408324/normal_6007e5ed0a917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405184/normal_60622025478d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasadosuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012998/24b7d71f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446925/normal_604742f0b3d30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386076/normal_5fdc3bfc6ced8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vejuxafesopekub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136010302/6ad071a39c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408583/normal_60035483668c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4376610/normal_5feb281b31d28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387218/normal_5ff5f96b16230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morimisinasezub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856414/jotapufowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423757/normal_604af3165c24c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365659/normal_60543f1ea5f9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368492/normal_60446ab152edf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff82482e-088c-4327-a32a-69a4375363c5/xopuwivozefejemafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f72aaa19-2f3f-40f4-a947-b12dad6406f6/the_stranger_albert_camus_plot_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7da4a307-bf78-4f1d-a918-f1d12f396431/libro_de_historia_de_mexico_secundaria_3_grado.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_off0000e1d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D5 5544 bytes
SHA-256: ec1e85c409dac2768b615c04cce5419aa9fbacdef4761019dac3c1d12f8adc78
font_01_sfnt_off0000f491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF491 9988 bytes
SHA-256: aed01cb53c7d9a0e0a5dd9c521776d3149a87d53d22d904f72b532dc63963e82