Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c1458cb69300ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

144.1 KB Created: 2021-03-28 06:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d2f5f636966980e53af1126ae63aafec SHA-1: d6bc2ac3ecee47865c62f95f3637c97d53ea54a3 SHA-256: a7c1458cb69300ac9707607b86544efdfbae58e1b897ff725a0803a5b28e3353
286 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document functions as a lure, employing a link farm strategy to direct users to external websites. It also explicitly requests sensitive recovery secrets or private keys, a common tactic in phishing and credential harvesting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of the user's trust to compromise their accounts or systems.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://midufefew.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+tls+and+ssl+protocols PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4377100/normal_5ffc991e2864c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385020/normal_60388b2e09c45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424010/normal_600d5c527b58e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387808/normal_5fe90bc945138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383692/normal_60065dfed9147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481168/normal_5fd7915d2b8e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413231/normal_5fd91b2fbae29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402261/normal_5fc598cbc490e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415930/normal_6047369e752c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497348/normal_604cc45f94d0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d25e5d79-f3dc-43ab-8538-58f2f4730235.filesusr.com/ugd/898300_d4b707373d9346a890bffeb72c20dd49.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eecb1da5-82b7-48ef-90e5-6a20895c07e7.filesusr.com/ugd/88a84f_62078f24457d4079b7b2717bc0a88741.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://539b613c-a54f-4c74-97b0-41cdc0f13365.filesusr.com/ugd/f6e6b4_bd412bf48bb7410c80d7f1822f3c858f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fuvitagenago.rf.gd/how_to_manually_unlock_a_front_load_washer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acd80754-3b70-42c6-a60f-3489f6261da4.filesusr.com/ugd/f1780b_054afbe341f64ef8a8ba386912804e34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1923692e-f727-4f58-80a8-3583160180e3.filesusr.com/ugd/c4ccc4_2c2fd4f7c9214f75bf98be824f0e6bf8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://86908e24-11f3-43a1-9346-bf531f45ee0b.filesusr.com/ugd/97493d_712cca818d604059a231d56ce866fbae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pevojuxewesi.rf.gd/john_deere_48_inch_snow_blade_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://368051e9-4199-40ea-b9a2-dc6e6f83cb3b.filesusr.com/ugd/6260fe_d329364c54cb443e990ec6093bda2fdf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c84d532c-3b33-47d6-96aa-4134a1164eb1.filesusr.com/ugd/6d45f6_aaea48b6408643cd8ee8e8341679df5b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gotenekopibijo.epizy.com/69433310226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://466f9527-ada3-48b4-ac0c-4ba5546996ca.filesusr.com/ugd/a4b6b9_c760ac3d903b495e92b2c9009f0b76a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jekuranabuvi.epizy.com/titulos_y_operaciones_de_credito_conclusion.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001e234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E234 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 12b5c9c1db352575791f2861983a5115a8548dba648a5522c80ff58b3f3017cf
font_01_sfnt_off0001f3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F3D2 11980 bytes
SHA-256: 5c79dac6bc3df3477b19a62920e83c6f13e3d0650fb3e91f0ddd7a4c1966ac50
font_02_sfnt_off00021ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21CE8 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 36ed9caf719e0849df8fd87ade7d51f3d04b8af5454f1aaa896d38a56b473f78