Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a81299a2af522185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-03-26 10:17:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: d59788440a7b1535ebe914fe6edadaf7 SHA-1: 7bac41e419c118ffb745da44d18695711510f9b6 SHA-256: a81299a2af52218545639a26f9aafc858c06dc86e9477d352d78425f690c7ba8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous external links, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure, as highlighted by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic. The SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE heuristic suggests the document prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware installation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://zajinet.ru/123?utm_term=certificate+of+analysis+fda+template PDF link annotation
    • http://idealica-columbia.site/divinity_original_sin_guidex4fem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452626/normal_6041854edd569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486983/normal_603c6e59f1601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jirudumom/ghjlUCE/cowboy_caviar_recipe_pioneer_woman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-mrush.com/what_is_the_story_of_lady_windermeres_fankm9w7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bristol-yalta.run/vlookup_excel_in_2_sheets7b1q1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savibivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381036/xojuwamukomoj-xetipelevike-ponegufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldatskaya6.ru/how_much_to_fix_a_priusjj8rr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kasavakujosi/jjiibw6/storybeat_pro_premium_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fegafedanopi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311678/8bfd5525986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/weteroliwo/Djheeiw/truck_racing_driver_truck_simulator_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-official.website/atividade_epileptiforme_o_que_significareofd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zolewiko/id6jfhi/61504808930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damvglaz0.xyz/how_to_make_a_smoothie_with_frozen_fruit_yogurt_and_milkzr37p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384150/normal_6018d15879548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstop.site/22503146532xc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kivipemo/CBzRJjj/4831920716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405946/normal_5fcaa4b1ed9b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wopari/generic_audio_driver_for_windows_10_64_bit_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zoromexemuzid/28586580176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zonivezada/wizkid_omalicha_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mujesogi/dna_replication_coloring_12.2_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/womirofop/basic_html_tags.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014ebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EBE 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off000158b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158B9 5308 bytes
SHA-256: a4258fc9870f73a8ba62332964020bbc637e66090c18032f14ae965ac8d7f553
font_02_sfnt_off00016ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AB9 10216 bytes
SHA-256: bb3cfa67cc2c6391d6a1c5779d04b290072e11d3dfe1bf79ab24389055baa3f2