Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 981f64cec26453a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-05-30 00:35:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c8df6d9c88bc5bbd9be4efdada3741c SHA-1: 793d702682ef88d08e0fc8465f3b835295c75409 SHA-256: 981f64cec26453a49a04772a77f6a07262d5084e2339a8662b22a03fb4bf8e3b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for an external URI pointing to a suspicious domain, which is also listed as an IOC. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to 'Canadian chemistry contest past papers', suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://resalured.ru/strik?utm_term=canadian+chemistry+contest+past+papers
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474723/normal_603d51fce998e.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413719/normal_6039b8c21cc4c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483070/normal_5fd3b2fb007b5.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379603/normal_6037eb1ee016a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445337/normal_5fd65bd769b50.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445742/normal_604f840f1ee64.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4421061/normal_60b1b8352f6cd.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384159/normal_604666204bfba.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410211/normal_5ffa44009df23.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481154/normal_605a2e5414555.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374196/normal_5fc88a5965d98.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454419/normal_6017db832a611.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b833b52e-d3bc-4a8b-bfff-33d1e03ec2a5/did_someone_died_in_my_house_free_search.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e90c3dcd-dd3c-43f5-8554-d12f6a20b88e/69348881752.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc79e22e-904a-4511-a022-782fca4b1894/ios_emoji_download_for_android.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3627fd49-cee1-4bb1-b38e-66b25c522d7c/68757310732.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85480094-035c-4c73-9a8d-268a85e8f2b0/baron_de_montesquieu_the_spirit_of_laws_summary.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d0abf53-38dd-4498-9792-42d4fc5b7541/22248449166.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79c51ec5-4930-46bb-93d0-73e49956e032/73054300724.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/85ef86a0-d7ef-44a6-b8cd-6e64550b129d/sadujewikijewetax.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1477817a-b384-4331-a027-5259693428a0/who_wrote_40_rules_of_love.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b51a77e8-ac76-47ad-aff6-f945f9528dbe/teaching_by_principles_douglas_brown_slideshare.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fcd3f1e8-354a-428a-be15-5634879e6fd5/67294515286.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ef108d8-bf8b-4f13-8a4d-5ad4b4e421ed/chuck_palahniuk_guts_true.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f24f.bin
19f3aec06a1b36ece0707347c7572d98e02728274cb4d2701d3f0dd07ae7700c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24F 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010425.bin
df434f2a1c15151b01189e505d70472c6ce95e1ebcc7541cd31ee2444e782d66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10425 12200 bytes