Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98be9449cb2c3f8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-03-12 04:14:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 3e4e7bbe324cbf254a6d178d14b60ac4 SHA-1: 21c0d78bba75bc58d9574dec6f2f8364d55e275b SHA-256: 98be9449cb2c3f8ffc4c7dbfc9a680b708179d61292ba8b630b4133dbaa5c4ea
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains multiple external URIs, including one that appears to be a redirector to a link farm, and another that is a direct link to a PDF hosted on disposable infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the phishing lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the ML/ClamAV detections strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+much+to+sell+a+used+keurig PDF link annotation
    • http://azorocheat6.xyz/15759125754kwef6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virnet77.ru/android_tutorial_point_freehgin9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prizinsta24.site/1309712260144nk9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buxeletifexid.medianewsonline.com/60544580684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islta.fun/xugonoxovigusedobec7zhb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puveputado.sportsontheweb.net/problem_solving_101_bahasa_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liketsven.xyz/book_of_giants_gilgameshaf769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427504/normal_6044fff4cfe73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagram-helping-centre.com/gapagibujagexunuwivok323ze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sagunutu.medianewsonline.com/reset_sharp_carousel_microwave_clock.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milanomoda-italy.website/27743577631vg6az.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibarulajido.getenjoyment.net/accounting_equation_class_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386080/normal_60463ecca4bc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebepufu.mypressonline.com/56667229798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://firiwigisu.atwebpages.com/jokunemulupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abbf68a8-5b21-4996-91be-11266bd273ed.filesusr.com/ugd/9374a7_96e8323100da463cbe0fb49485a717bf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sabiwilurase.atwebpages.com/unilag_admission_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cf6c2b4-cd84-4b73-83b1-bf7f441162b2.filesusr.com/ugd/e50c99_fcc282aa360c4c118b43c45ddfe43fab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c6de0af5-2a4c-46da-924c-839bccb102c6.filesusr.com/ugd/5f1f0f_3baf3826cbe94280bc109ab27ee1fe13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://siniligavaxuvul.onlinewebshop.net/best_shows_on_acorn_tv_september_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ff9dba89-6132-4485-99c2-ace8a2453124.filesusr.com/ugd/c3f59f_0d8339db7d504ab88b5d0887b6d1fadb.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012ccc.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12CCC 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 01a54e7c25907d90b0fa2f6a23179cad99824c792ae2305c6e34e0e3397397d6
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EE 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 587463835553adfab227248e247e9b7bf3edda0bddb42d3f4f4088f69e380a5d
font_01_sfnt_off000107d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D7 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 88ea4ad5c193b15e2cb5d2b61c95fc7cf97568e05720a06270f246fe8c2c1352
font_03_sfnt_off000147e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71