Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c40e2a427667c17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-03-19 12:18:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e8dd041b264fd5934433ed8cd842dcf7 SHA-1: 79ea4aab48202b133c1fe3cf9c5f152010255c6d SHA-256: 9c40e2a427667c175530b752690388709e0cbf86510cd0da84263ac6678e34c7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, with a primary focus on a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'worksheet answers', aligning with common social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nipisod.ru/wix?keyword=struggling+toward+saratoga+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miwataxanis/bgeTidH/pokemon_quest_switch_to_mobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tupirusu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702138/totijedotoxo_tesiz_kivof_danobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexedixejorew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438453/jufosofojere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijofufakeziti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380729/suravepewu_viguj_fipukuv_fibuvodevamekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476443/normal_5fd5fb2e8eb99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404124/normal_602c07ea8f77b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galabogenezoso.getenjoyment.net/68339691207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491445/normal_5fc56effb5394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumajufeboxidik.mywebcommunity.org/acuerdos_de_basilea_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bezakolat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321390/tajenixutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nujamuxeg/bhihiC4/walmart_moneygram_hours_hallandale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451018/normal_603bf6ae0e909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476015/normal_600fa2516302a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4381536/normal_5feafe13a468c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rejinujo/Lhhjfgi/galaxy_shooter_space_shooting_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389820/normal_5fd9ac21e35a7.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/e971efaa-5521-4c3b-89b9-dd97f36d07a3/what_is_the_wps_button_on_my_modem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba2206c2-b5aa-4f2e-ac2f-d17a06c51a10/los_juegos_del_hambre_1_pelicula_completa_en_espaol_latino_facebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc30e34f-dc2e-4aa9-aef4-70bc2f14451c/ciccarelli_psychology_5th_edition_chapter_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff54f59b-70d6-4eda-8ef8-a2b704dadc99/2003_ford_mustang_mach_1_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f104566-0ae2-4749-b738-b92911785488/fuvojalajap.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_off0000d239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD239 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 31e3dacc5a3fbb52d12f53e21cde9aac7f521b9e27d58a815f6e008d7b60c196
font_01_sfnt_off0000e46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46C 10400 bytes
SHA-256: c7732db35755b0a90b2d91e614eb56ead6ac0a4fafefc1859f7281a3d48afdee