Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d8c9030399744f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-03-22 17:07:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a2b056158c5dba7b360803a39a4c7a67 SHA-1: 54e86294e8fade9b78114a8282658bbd97a7cdc8 SHA-256: 9d8c9030399744f837efde463c31b78e60e401d62744ba0d976258e99a544529
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a URL related to a game download ('dumb ways to die 2 apk') further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://leonvi.ru/wix?keyword=dumb+ways+to+die+2+apk+2.6 PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386849/normal_5fca04520ed66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476150/normal_5fdf3b08b4c4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xibopenevitamog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134488628/1522887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagafika.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135339488/piwipubimaxajawuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://save50it.pro/what_is_a_star_network_gcse8a1x5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490739/normal_5fd5f4e284fbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rakumimow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135957304/povifanedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dimax.website/how_to_use_pmd_microderm_provpc2x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoop-fm.ru/hoppin_mad_racing_game4hpn4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371812/normal_60406bee23cc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navemozozaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164567/89eb3094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puxivulikuvudet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134663564/dadepune_vuxepuzilabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dommasters.site/83174415996hgv85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optamorem.com/nate_the_great_series_reading_levely3kbq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459028/normal_6026cc586f510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snail-case.store/android_studio_network_profiler_not_working3blgn.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/b1e56b1d-8e20-4bcf-a952-40e1508e8021/28536165981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd833286-cdc9-4a87-9c68-ca72b32a1fd8/why_is_online_school_hated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2e37c7b3-1dfe-4419-b674-95581e19c3ee/4275883225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44080d49-6ab6-4b74-ae5b-cb1d345f8ff5/15278575175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/34957f1f-04c3-44fc-9495-b23faecdbbbb/mcsa_windows_server_2016_complete_study_guide_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8cdf80d1-e166-450e-a36a-e0de99c55e7d/integration_of_x2_ex3_cosex3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a002ddd1-68cb-4764-8372-4b9fbfc2307e/rizefegoluzapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29bd5c08-a375-4952-8b04-a63a6bcf2cb8/danielle_steel_neighbors_barnes_and_noble.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_off0000f0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CD 5692 bytes
SHA-256: 52c38676d58f88078a7c08ba8ff82fcf6651cb5f02e894d6b4a4640c41bafa34
font_01_sfnt_off00010445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10445 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 57225c9d1b5ec3247e782a26fa3c6323980bb9412d1b75d5ba47faead8e45174