Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a985852b3a137b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-03-15 06:21:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 4d13630bea992701282fa3267bfd3400 SHA-1: eba5af0e6039ef3d7ee45d687133bb062f69859b SHA-256: a985852b3a137b06450e13c1ddfbef4041f5316a11754f881554b497e7a26319
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure suggesting a software update is required, which is a common social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking malicious links. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and a high ML classifier score strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://maypoin.ru/123?utm_term=update+android+studio+manually PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413362/normal_6046724be54cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484835/normal_5fe8ed953d808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459477/normal_60199d4571808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loxepafigav/hj3jfGY/pivemixuvirorogutaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393763/normal_603b6e6723a68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getodupelipod.iblogger.org/cataclysmic_variable_stars.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakaxof.iblogger.org/mezevisanevokevorelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379732/normal_5ffba8aceaf4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490364/normal_60097b4bf2b59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toselarasomax.iblogger.org/teoria_del_conflicto_entelman_resumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rawerusiwala/HThgrhd/chicago_greatest_hits_album_cover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://dc010c70-835d-4b56-8cb0-1e1bda7cab64.filesusr.com/ugd/fb576b_0ee59634d210436c9d1e9524247c3370.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5c9c3928-af7d-4195-9e43-9647d7263c15.filesusr.com/ugd/508998_d4b965a4133444539dc77c7bbc07e42e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://968bac2e-1409-45a7-bd11-2c37eba47390.filesusr.com/ugd/c81504_d57b981d6b55421197f8a4a626f93f68.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://87164119-88a6-4d6d-a72f-b109cf2d88b9.filesusr.com/ugd/bd0a66_05d6d11252eb4a3784c563c8666eebf7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e20d271a-53e3-41f9-9180-d6cd5f9fd148.filesusr.com/ugd/6cfc61_0ad1e8bdadf44ca6a2ffe28ca723e2da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sajafobufa.rf.gd/telonitolajubobikese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acfcda0b-1795-4b40-aedc-9a0bc13047ce.filesusr.com/ugd/89c6ad_190f0acccdb84317afbd26de63cecc57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d992f69e-bc5b-430a-92d7-abfd66d0380b.filesusr.com/ugd/6f7357_ab092da3f5d04718831db109b8687edc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lukigek.rf.gd/edmonton_police_report_accident.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000faa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA7 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 24c924230f1067570d6c0fc15f188dd56e9512cfecb03069119b502ce0cf1937
font_01_sfnt_off00010c48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C48 11896 bytes
SHA-256: 34f901f5c63c42d87cd4e91e15b539938d8d29d395d350b83677814821ed3943