Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab376250cd65c651…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-04 09:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 95414f78ef0f5650e5d9bbe4e1197ca8 SHA-1: 65055868d5c05ff7f61a2538922d7b7dffd14894 SHA-256: ab376250cd65c65187d71eac799ad96f6a7009376729e3102675c6dd0598a068
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs and the high confidence detection indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/pbw?utm_term=algebra+2+common+core+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wobafelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134613510/gulileditegaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408721/normal_602a828cb96e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4444096/normal_5fe570728edde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabaxezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134766945/parebigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501794/normal_6045044b51c40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korebamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739662/9880335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozuxepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134478893/dafiboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf19202b-825d-4e01-811d-2ae2533ed037/what_sleeping_position_is_best_for_menstrual_cramps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1eff858-b542-4abc-bf1a-d05350c35dcb/mims_drug_handbook_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e09bcd5-2500-464e-b67b-53a9b86c55d4/39837440926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ea62e64-cde4-44e2-820a-d3b5a32ac8b4/samsung_galaxy_note_4_datenblatt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73376b6c-097e-47f9-b921-7eb59030d7e3/canon_pixma_mg3120_ink.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/520f32e4-4024-4594-ab00-6b8bc809479a/98187211135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/610729c0-e879-4b7e-8223-2a6d8e4efb40/what_is_marine_microbiology_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e3c4a45-df3f-46ce-b747-eb1c571fa817/wujobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e4970ae-d981-4f9c-a975-225b2e51d283/best_electronic_gifts_for_12_year_olds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapetipubi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144426765/world_coin_price_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/280abf5e-acba-42ed-b502-c60879931cc8/john_deere_high_lift_bagger_mower_blades_42-inch_cut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b09a565a-0f85-4fab-bd4c-978b3668bba4/muvisovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipoziw.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144451557/descargar_juegos_para_emulador_ppsspp_para_pc_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd9f0369-597c-4219-8795-bdfcf4e689b5/xiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea1fa158-b645-40d1-8cc6-19c4f0244182/how_long_does_polaris_280_last.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_off0000fc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4F 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 3d178b932c0798cbcddf84030dff0e0fe271a62ede39c4e5e2641f73e3057fee
font_01_sfnt_off00010f60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F60 11884 bytes
SHA-256: 5e6e1931b74ab4b25837e1ceec8eb53ed137e198c1dff44418edf329850d8d60