Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8a49b745bf38dd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-03-23 10:55:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: c3db5a7396149d8e15532449da7a77ea SHA-1: 616b5c94ad7a25c2f2f0b7b62a369a1309439aa3 SHA-256: a8a49b745bf38dd697bd898fd42117a8e2d01cbf921658cebb4c488e4811cb60
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'nervous system diagram worksheet'. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious or SEO-spam content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://pelibifir.ru/wix?keyword=nervous+system+diagram+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://prizinsta.info/fulerasasubisonoz77opt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ziloboze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683463/ecebe67006858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sazavilekin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134851962/4337755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detabifaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436978/1586036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiruzox.mygamesonline.org/misorazelulagujeritubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xafukulirodut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379356/javofutamugasuwikoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gunujudota.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303168/4731125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bemebedutor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134624352/sivodelugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piligerababuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324290/nizufavakuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leftoutclub.com/patazerobekibesiv6736q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rerijore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856643/e599d379a42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonotel.mygamesonline.org/9009513215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedagenuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682668/43a083bd09c2a.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a60aefc5-1046-40b4-8126-0d072fd70cff/hoover_nano_cyclonic_foam_filter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f72cd8ae-e066-4b1e-93b4-5b05aeba9def/cant_open_door_on_neff_washing_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/686278e7-4a0b-4367-9891-3757dd8ea111/the_other_side_of_midnight_dvd_region_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77348168-eb2e-4c8e-99cf-22fed6a276b1/open_questions_for_the_three-part_lesson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/38e8bf4c-dd98-425d-a001-a786f93b5d33/nemoxufojinaritizomugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa98e0da-cf0d-49a9-85ed-b2702604b15b/16939558451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a0f9634-e69f-4176-b1a3-a52bbbd3c72a/gakoperelafenumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e88fca2d-f3d8-4945-bdbd-d19731cc7107/zoom_g11_price_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/698e106a-7e9d-4328-a39c-6d3c18b2194d/62877096368.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_off000101f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F9 5268 bytes
SHA-256: e581ba54c5d86e8fd882128ebc00aef667dbf50eace751b57bb6e84eb6b38cdd
font_01_sfnt_off00011408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11408 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 5a8184252874868c315d97bc3082afd1bbc58d96eeaea35331b9ce2c485e3e88
font_02_sfnt_off00013720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13720 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34