Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d5282cae4224ff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-03-31 13:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6ce5ca6e08eb8a515103027fc65c4de8 SHA-1: 046fd341218c4e728c83dae4f413561dfe4f8d01 SHA-256: 9d5282cae4224ff81467a82f38317d96fcbf2ded9eb9cf3f252a48ed324cf3d5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or SEO spam campaign. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to "ccna practice questions exam 640 802 pdf". No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points to a redirection-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://mezovuduw.ru/award?keyword=ccna+practice+questions+exam+640+802+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490380/normal_5fe37e2cdd6e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zogobadakedu/hhjYQid/vermintide_2_grail_knight_ps4_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tubuzitobez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108618/nakilapulirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kekufekogaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134768560/648a20cea94e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vofirojaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637635/05975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazenoti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740362/2988395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408865/normal_5fea3df4ddc30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rejonogatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135392998/xerebo_masopifabinafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuwupixunipava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986845/misorom_voramunabexa_gepodusajase_rivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxediseweroz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134634010/kigisegotegex_xasukopojexe_kafuxirevesewu_resukabave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dabamupusoga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265366/topegaroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://punizino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134327780/1816398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413966/normal_5fc7e8d496e99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixazizaze/bQji5ic/21546594403.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
    • https://165b0ab0-89c3-4517-b88f-e2bd0c55d975.filesusr.com/ugd/97b555_f925aaf68d38414691cda5c9c9a17dc4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b010e64b-8cdf-4d34-b226-d01cf1774aaf/13036446934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://156bb51f-0b62-477f-88ca-8620af00812b.filesusr.com/ugd/e3ff21_ccbcecfc6ddf48c99b8e36f2abd5ccc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://78e27e65-9996-4239-a63d-7a21722db537.filesusr.com/ugd/03f576_b9fe118292e5412c8b1a3f9db4dc32ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9607eda6-c2a6-4792-9ccb-6bccad4be5a0/1650296055.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_off0000ff71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF71 6080 bytes
SHA-256: d4be83b02517f064062eaa9ab4b2961c5fb98035246fc679429205fc5e7d4e2a
font_01_sfnt_off00011408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11408 11496 bytes
SHA-256: fff542a6f117ce071d3b33b8752579fb921ef9fb59bfb391ab0c48bd966f1ae9
font_02_sfnt_off00013b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B45 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361