Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e5d22496c7ff44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-06-01 03:08:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: f99b7c6bb4fc8628706d18223c0e7ffc SHA-1: c928d3339e3196ec785d27cb4c025834b07acac6 SHA-256: a3e5d22496c7ff44fe2e78ada68e59877e1d558de5c9adf5e5bea602a3bf098f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a search query, implying a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://nomylo.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+write+twenty+hundredths+in+decimal+form PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4373304/normal_60aff05f86407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panujiwawavila.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457592/netex_siruvifojuduwiz_sodelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4469136/normal_60b1c0630088a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476147/normal_604d66994a1ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botebagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134870763/pivirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retagavit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363188/gaputatenowawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409393/normal_604819dc2f190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367951/normal_5ff664d987669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velawavasikene.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400921/533061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410004/normal_604348a48ac8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowimibakerideb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494798/79c05e4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowemaxixedire.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325030/vukuvexopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416665/normal_5fe53313f1dd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijananok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740199/6141339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475565/normal_5fea13a6c7672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simisasokudu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235492/8556323.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/2302f606-f616-4a9e-9b51-11b56b8e1f6a/tijudufetira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lugozamuxika.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144421494/descargar_cantos_del_camino_neocatecumenal_mp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70d125e3-453f-4af5-9c6e-46bd4b9e3592/ravobamofogumutupajomaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risoxef.pbworks.com/f/knight_physics_for_scientists_and_engineers_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://negovijalulu.pbworks.com/f/rijisixowojatenorejime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedidovetaw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144417717/cabrio_washer_error_codes_f5_e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de82e1ce-f941-439f-a9c7-b26aaae6d0cf/wojizazowipefurumuxog.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_off0000e536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE536 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 5258c4cc13fa6062f55947749ef89b263c19f1586730370a70024fd880179733
font_01_sfnt_off0000f787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 3cac2bd642230a1795150a97a8c4380c34064132ec8e4e52a37c206c680f772b