Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a248bdecfd8e66f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.9 KB Created: 2021-03-02 12:26:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 0227f6e9ab1f1435a099ca93e3841ff3 SHA-1: 66214ca13105d1087c7a20765b700ce1b7976a71 SHA-256: a248bdecfd8e66f3c11d5189bd9aa30a69cd5f26e4aa9f77790f8a8cd2cdb65a
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document attempts to trick users into revealing sensitive recovery secrets or private keys. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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=vba+programming+access+2016 PDF link annotation
    • https://gipafefigemer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097902/vodelakobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajozopikikaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134359408/7788041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekoriforeta.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134639422/zitikibirenaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4487626/normal_600063f435dc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fupiloxeti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380404/dosaren-gugisabijoxug-fiwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vazemewezasal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775722/8223482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wododepovu.iblogger.org/nimakivaroguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ketofebem/i8jfjeQ/basic_frosting_recipe_without_powdered_sugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totevev.22web.org/42920286908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bomemenun/ciigcx9/ecto_blaster_planetside_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vojutodebol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096580/sebififer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xalifabosivibu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775217/pozamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365542/normal_5fcbad4fd4394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426679/normal_5fc56c8e36364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolabuxovitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135305824/22451834.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://zevebetuj.epizy.com/11826220586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sefukapa.epizy.com/laboratory_assistant_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watuginidimefil.epizy.com/sia_chandelier_song_free.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_off00019cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CFF 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 7f7bc747857c9e2790895ab7862fd1cb16f3097a577b16e41d4ab74f8da62de9
font_01_sfnt_off0001af99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF99 15320 bytes
SHA-256: b992bee5c55a2ebd1e1a56229faad0a5453a4daf4dc27e962d61a709db7d5625
font_02_sfnt_off0001df94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DF94 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361