Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c49e11e12baf498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-06-07 07:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 44b139ecddc0e999d33abb7fa24ff94a SHA-1: 4370816fd3fc54b4e06c8b3f64b268d9a25a49f3 SHA-256: 9c49e11e12baf498fdbe6c6a753313c5a7dd9485913b07ced3bd35efa4e96e14
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm designed to direct users to external sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an 'answer key', likely intended for phishing or SEO spam. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/pbw?utm_term=energy+storage+and+transfer+model+test+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496592/normal_6024b258ce188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4495860/normal_60b1980214c5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farigelud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266281/rakitowasebanuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gugajonegil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813642/divawexaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kigokowolabewal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134132594/kutusuxipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barufaworu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135957986/fb62bb8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405179/normal_60bae11570b9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mewarikubunaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637951/kigeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazowumisobebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135329866/4e08b971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujiborabasovu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134590634/gunokelituxoka_vatajagupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedaruwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326402/xiworarefeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voxonevixes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134383310/fbf3a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisuxijux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135323954/8141934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383460/normal_604aa47668226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443821/normal_6069e03136043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muduzefob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018051/tirosovawemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotewaga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134615540/litodikap_sugagifasu_xutebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinenovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509314/1404966.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://xuwuziz.pbworks.com/f/how_to_do_visual_narrative.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raravisu.pbworks.com/f/how_to_make_your_own_graph_on_google_docs.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000117ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CA 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 3e332eae41be79a860b6bc4ca50766903f1bd3cf37a35e7cd981e13662027e4b
font_01_sfnt_off00012971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12971 11908 bytes
SHA-256: f74061476c36f1751f7ab8b963a416845f7e7653a18b27f824b81064ba561897
font_02_sfnt_off00015206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15206 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333