Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4441239cd814c78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-03-30 17:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 623c20bffe4070c5eb1099ae83d24c32 SHA-1: d09093175aaaa413d76509a1240527db4f0bceed SHA-256: a4441239cd814c78eb6f0b29b958e7a594f9dc275e5c5f9cf47951cf031f484c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which are to suspicious domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though truncated, suggests a lure related to grant proposals, which is then linked to external URLs.

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 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.
  • 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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+write+a+scientific+research+grant+proposal PDF link annotation
    • http://usecabinets.xyz/911641887995q8wp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tosety.xyz/request_approval_letter_formatykn9r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustova.com/lowulogutabavowy4ui.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletopshop.ru/dijukakixaladxvc7p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490375/normal_6006e7476a136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrysavbr.site/jam2_speaker_not_pairingf46i0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473432/normal_605c416b9fca4.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
    • https://7aff118d-26f6-4d76-9bc9-1838009e7274.filesusr.com/ugd/f80014_4d28701340234381b6ec349b4151079e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bdb694ae-09c3-41ef-bf76-962a3894547f/anti-_theft_alert_system_using_atmega8_microcontroller.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://30d6ba4c-d201-4e26-8f31-a0e059b28788.filesusr.com/ugd/f9b8bb_bbaf00cfcf414e30a153add2c7e98284.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wutogugej/2005_ford_f250_6.0_diesel_oil_weight.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58f7db89-7f22-457a-b93b-730cada49f1c/58932491995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavejijitatofu/mupemugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c90e4a81-1472-4eb9-b46b-2b7428ea1bf2/guidelines_for_the_development_of_shipboard_oil_pollution_emergency_plan_sopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/legobegutulo/49069133369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ropidadegaxut/27832518524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mixanaz/10975976371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/farowug/letterhead_design_template_psd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/166acf57-b2a7-4c68-8077-03bb0f599b52/what_is_the_message_of_the_story_the_necklace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tinajabizoreguf/amie_exam_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f815f12b-539f-4060-8ed9-abd2caada31b.filesusr.com/ugd/ceb2e8_8d2ed9bf3464430ba8b8828f12b4853b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e791dc30-71fd-4519-a75e-453748eb9c32.filesusr.com/ugd/8a5fcf_8e44e33a571a4f78ae9d4f8410cd9660.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://88966db1-4a83-4446-b941-f65022a6235f.filesusr.com/ugd/928e0f_ba620d3693134f01bbc5f372ee68d037.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE30 5120 bytes
SHA-256: a4a6ead0f607354edd6240b5fa59a0b14168ff16c5a540dd7ad0abce97ed55eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA0 12580 bytes
SHA-256: 59156cd2b448d9be1b485346a1ab54018693ff90baec291f6c23a45ea9c773d0
font_02_sfnt_off0001281f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378