Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b1133b07482581b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

151.9 KB Created: 2021-03-27 18:17:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d3b48c6e6917e4f3442a4ec8f884b53c SHA-1: 227e50de8f9d08257724aa5ab2e1eb4ad57c1a87 SHA-256: 9b1133b07482581b16e2a5497c3a6498e209490a13104bccde1217ccb4f382c6
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document employs social engineering tactics, specifically a 'Browser extension / update installation lure', to trick users into downloading and installing potentially malicious software. The presence of numerous external URIs, including those on disposable hosting, and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lure suggests the PDF likely exploits vulnerabilities or redirects to malicious sites to achieve its objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://jacksth.ru/123?utm_term=sci-+hub+journal PDF link annotation
    • https://nivumumati.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134703955/bezug-vejipodune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461201/normal_5fe9857bb81e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470226/normal_601c9b9c8499f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367927/normal_6055b4b73fb17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413986/normal_5ff1c82de94f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasojifet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776368/5721776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485446/normal_603b6de2284ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4484806/normal_5fcbd1f3cc039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanixikowupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437740/c2fb95562d29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekevifumufov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739519/wovokawejeji_puworenetota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424645/normal_600744d6a1dcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369923/normal_5fff264ea1b69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/puretulenuza/figukufalojupuwoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c00521ca-9fa8-4743-abd5-0eabb9e3b35e/61370861649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d82be83f-fd33-41ed-9c11-1d77078b7a7c/can_my_lease_be_terminated_during_covid_19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/18960cde-5eb3-4c39-865e-9c4941eac07c/32036888657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fokapikow/why_is_my_modem_not_receiving_internet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bf87b66-110e-43b2-8cc9-9a10a6fbc259/77667617849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0d57b77-a245-4b78-95a6-66511cfb8290/scotsman_ice_machine_service_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ecaf2463-9bd4-4168-bc0f-600a45a3c6f5/what_are_the_two_routes_to_persuasion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirosisob/gusesadadevaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d0a71b6-3f0e-48c1-ad6b-246e1cef372b/97141799860.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
    • 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_off0001f54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F54C 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 979bf6460c21135de1504a5f06404e17cd6e146d31c709ee563ac3afcb3a1c57
font_01_sfnt_off00020688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20688 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 7858e7938623da6bc43e600a962c1c9a3cd74821872d4d33eddad1bb2e84931d
font_02_sfnt_off00023d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23D61 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef9506ee11a349461550e6b437e3786686b598308a87786035880d16624999d