Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a403ed64a91fda2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-05-13 11:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5ff1d7422d9e7b7ddcf4771576fc5934 SHA-1: 6c296f9bc17c5aae99a248196ad544bd7285563b SHA-256: a403ed64a91fda2ba9cd6d93616004c0448c75621f7d333c670a786318e6952a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and multiple external URIs, with one prominent URL pointing to a suspicious domain. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=royal+mail+international+tracking+number
    • http://xupenirulavep.iblogger.org/gusumogonijipobopape.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/448f511c-8894-422d-8e30-e4a0fe14df83/are_jeep_grand_cherokee_srt_reliable.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ed84c7f-e781-4b94-8c42-ae363f22a84f/this_is_where_it_ends_book_synopsis.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/98ee3bb1-2927-4412-b043-ce05baeed5b5/how_to_pair_a_directv_remote_with_a_samsung_tv.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23cd0a16-4fb2-47ef-ae39-3b6e5d1cc324/90775602787.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ce27fbd-c828-443c-bc1b-ac8078892a8d/molecular_biology_of_the_cell_sixth_edition.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/068aef16-5d06-4a1c-a775-1e09e66f2171/37039973111.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04a4cb0f-e182-4d16-af16-d26a3a0f1cb5/lg_v20_specification_and_price_in_nigeria.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9db684c9-2662-4f4c-bbb7-ed5259cc0647/vezimo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ae3c023-6222-4791-b3fb-d6c7e6ed95f9/14013196343.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb50b06d-139a-40c6-b7e1-a5bf57b1756b/97457879244.pdf
    • http://mirimanomuropa.rf.gd/the_story_of_ruby_bridges_discussion_questions.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb655ef8-a4cc-4852-9380-32a5667f83d1/77867560863.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5384f33-221b-4661-83c6-87c56abddf68/what_is_literature_review_in_research_paper.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b892a014-e453-4794-8f51-61ebca319ab1/the_magnolia_story.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1c4fe54-cac2-4fd3-82b6-cef23695ca6e/how_to_use_graco_click_connect_stroller_without_car_seat.pdf
    • https://ad323f3e-245e-4e3c-8b16-de91fefec063.filesusr.com/ugd/5ea691_984486dee27b4a4e93040f9f2ed7b6c8.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db6c77b4-771a-4cf8-a3cf-703fed38c979/is_pathfinder_enough_for_nda.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8778e0c0-a1b9-4905-9f09-3c73fb1a7400/77190214630.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6feafe0e-07b6-4473-a6fa-9988cedca5bc/syncrowave_250_dx_manual_espaol.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0ea2ee54-366d-412b-bac5-a97b9c5a187c/80373861950.pdf
    • https://1a6defe7-92a0-4357-8a70-d3bce85d30c9.filesusr.com/ugd/385065_e7963b1d87d74fbda2d777e02173ac1c.pdf?index=true
    • https://ef4b221f-cfb4-47e8-bf1d-3b5092770df7.filesusr.com/ugd/4948da_79ff81df1c7d40e3b5ca6b0a4567dd6b.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f828791e-2488-4a35-b492-72680c659793/3668084266.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed50.bin
97067e6f523ec50b7ede020111214ebfe933b194f29e381bcfe83af98bb58eb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED50 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000febf.bin
06c966d461f957466b2cd4fc156ea59a0680011ea7828286c8d474cdba656a57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBF 10580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000122bc.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122BC 4324 bytes