Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e9498275f29a9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-03-15 23:32:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 43866a20333a51190eea7b56e165c593 SHA-1: 41710d044f332f93fed77f6ef679cdd787922206 SHA-256: a3e9498275f29a9ee340ee34b75baf230b818df4cc8e66c7725110e9d0768d1e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a title related to 'Class dojo parents', which could be a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=class+dojo+parents+can%2527t+see+points PDF link annotation
    • https://venireza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135959939/8c422dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paxupodef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134763896/zolorozodusewuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jabilevij.mypressonline.com/dungeons_and_dragons_core_rulebook_gift_set.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zedukibawubige.22web.org/golumatunipimuzifewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gufurebu.medianewsonline.com/does_the_constitution_explain_the_electoral_college_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukilukisa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070258/3d66f86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tezoxefakalexo.sportsontheweb.net/66249326995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodetinerimaguw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135347088/13635c7185259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonujokos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775252/8dd5063d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajexori.mypressonline.com/changing_dewalt_735_planer_blades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8eccd3b7-fb20-4588-a5b5-4d8c58591879.filesusr.com/ugd/0e6328_6b0eadaaa7824c959210be10a87e04d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4aa575f-5b0d-4eca-91bf-71e3a7561433/21477225919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fdc6cf04-91d2-4bb1-a13f-2f76a7d80ec5/impact_of_globalisation_on_organisational_culture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/083bbf43-6359-48ef-9c75-8f7604548a94/64139884418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajunuximu.epizy.com/80800433019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1cbf0fd9-62af-4102-a3dc-982f361539e7.filesusr.com/ugd/bfbc46_279bb41a49ae4acb9eb5f63cefb0ba59.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b1b0174c-961c-4936-87f6-765e1132391e.filesusr.com/ugd/6cf804_1a1e5e3a3f0c4260abf18fecfdb3ba6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://samanofi.epizy.com/xububadivolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c5f8071-e726-4aee-aa8c-eb64b063baa2/bitinotaxilegepuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb5d991f-84fe-463b-993d-b4627a6ef462/kogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutoxinupuroxo.onlinewebshop.net/5865499368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c49ff76-e13b-46da-8354-2e633d56f736.filesusr.com/ugd/211c2d_b9689d732fe243bc80ddd4a5eea89a04.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bodirinukamole.onlinewebshop.net/asean_free_trade_area_benefits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fac30f9c-1bc3-4ff6-ac40-7ced1d2a170b.filesusr.com/ugd/3b7182_204a6c4c856b4a60940fc19a1693b439.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF359 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 6dfc0abfbece1bcafefc8eb22b63e4c24de0ce695ba5949d34db57d8ebade324
font_01_sfnt_off000104b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B6 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ec9ea7139d7a9665c90c71a3980e5c08a70b111e1560ec9e2f9760f661304afc