Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 977825aff2b20949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-04-07 03:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 34484c712c8e87823accac8249d1693e SHA-1: 596cca25fad403f9057b58fc05761242cce68401 SHA-256: 977825aff2b20949510c27a17d2bdd774c7020622d99785fe28401c74d1cc474
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are flagged as link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://maypoin.ru/123?utm_term=blank+calibration+certificate+template PDF link annotation
    • http://dilawiputonu.mypressonline.com/35241212089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384632/normal_5ffbe0cdc8bc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xanusojuruxu.sportsontheweb.net/bogoxufufejefufutexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xebiniseba.mygamesonline.org/edit_bookmarks_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1fps.ru/wheat_belly_baking_mix_recipeivuxg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-central.com/75313527200lulb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafupofamurawaf.mygamesonline.org/88619801727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4467038/normal_5fc7465778433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rumurel.mywebcommunity.org/are_publix_markets_open_on_thanksgiving.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pifofobexaxel.mypressonline.com/26956139904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuwojukow.mygamesonline.org/advances_in_soil_microbiology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://mifotabelimudon.myartsonline.com/les_misrables_musical_streaming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1138278f-e8d0-45ef-aef3-dbdd7428ac52.filesusr.com/ugd/5be868_4d905f9799ce4f4bb10ac5858a52ebb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/68bb6101-0c45-4d0d-af31-9a783c8037fb/17185454125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gototura.myartsonline.com/58088946565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a451ab79-a44a-4cb4-a02b-fb7e2a477f50/62639517954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b042056-ea88-454d-b2b4-8df294f31976/fipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://631ffb88-cf2d-4844-8d6b-9338a1b21cc5.filesusr.com/ugd/d24e6f_d582ec4366f44aa18d3bdc6dc580ba29.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c779a0a5-5a96-4308-8c37-720837e0bdd2.filesusr.com/ugd/4f1d02_15ab0c0b59dc486a8c96fdd27f353eb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9afb1793-bc57-4514-bb46-74e980466609.filesusr.com/ugd/11f207_e38de201134940f481aee896d5dce15c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc273c12-e125-4738-b2e6-b96bc4bd5eb7.filesusr.com/ugd/c8df25_c09ae21dad074a7089f180ac9f10b657.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44374b1a-8323-46be-bcef-39714ec3493e/how_to_fix_proform_elliptical.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_off0000e478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE478 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 750cbafe8a5819c44c87ba02188f874d6101be329f4e0a736de984512cd2a8bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF635 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 34b098c84455a75007879531390285cea87977353ad823757d691ce846c5a022