Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a98ce45fd32afb32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-06-07 08:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a373239a96d2d1d87d78acf682e02a7c SHA-1: 3e2aeb27c9e5a3a204421bc85b9d5711816b2dce SHA-256: a98ce45fd32afb32a048ce7744f360b8c0e49888a53502f16e605660fa1661f2
256 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to file-sharing services, suggesting a link farm or a method to distribute malicious files. The presence of heuristics related to MFA/one-time-code harvesting and password-protected archives indicates a phishing or credential theft attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ketchas.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+fortnite+boogie+down
    • https://rijokurep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134377239/puwubet_xusof.pdf
    • https://mifakukataw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349500/7434d00b8f4102.pdf
    • https://wekegakusujesal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266445/24ffaf96e.pdf
    • https://mufuxavezefajox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134497947/3828981.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • http://lezakoliz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144597672/yayn_denizi_lys_edebiyat_el_kitab.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f88352c-6931-4f57-a3c1-9a94f6aa82d9/pmp_certification_course_material_free_download.pdf
    • http://vatojorisa.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144562296/zadagulaxasewi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f06e3c91-a576-48ce-a042-8ecb76d74657/ink_cartridge_for_hp_j4680_printer.pdf
    • http://kemususi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144725949/handover_letter_format_after_resignation_doc.pdf
    • http://xifatarege.pbworks.com/f/how_much_does_it_cost_to_make_black_and_white_copies_at_fedex.pdf
    • http://giwupiraride.pbworks.com/f/76687505978.pdf
    • http://xovakovawup.pbworks.com/f/how_to_measure_ring_size_uk.pdf
    • http://kiruguwota.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144606705/65885131621.pdf
    • http://kelivesas.pbworks.com/f/12517174527.pdf
    • http://zufogopojut.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144503265/20627236433.pdf
    • http://bovojigu.pbworks.com/f/litanozujidutazorejoko.pdf
    • http://mokapuv.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144611964/33803594192.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3345f877-4df1-4e67-92f8-7f99ad16b483/wekepagegiwaxupaf.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b72c73a3-a009-4635-804d-cb0cd5999335/how_do_i_check_my_ebt_balance_online_florida.pdf
    • http://visetululiv.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144423078/ruwiwo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d99aa0c9-bda7-430b-918a-fd807091f8ee/if_i_ran_the_circus.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09745dda-61ee-4a2a-b69a-a7e92f77abec/esv_bible_citation.pdf
    • http://dejulagimu.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144663810/minimum_age_to_get_provisional_driving_licence_uk.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1ef4ddd-65d3-41b5-a132-7cec542272b3/how_to_turn_on_verizon_ellipsis_tablet.pdf
    • http://ronakiko.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144535911/bawopemexitadi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/748b9fb7-f7fa-47e7-9098-9a0bc877b4f9/kanipir.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f7018d7-bd24-418e-858e-1217a633ebb7/40097090028.pdf
    • http://papoxuva.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144560349/52922141616.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f044.bin
2e6966919cd9a7cd9183009d26898c24570c0e34da88192a7ec761f2dc087e5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF044 4636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010020.bin
ac41dcde8554f77bfe641295f4cc90063c6b20d232f39052e4f8ffb6f64f2a23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10020 11004 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012599.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12599 4324 bytes