Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab5c36b988eee84f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-05-11 10:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 14e876632b39c421a43f336cc6b39803 SHA-1: c7a791c5179c9fcb48c44187acde639ae32d50be SHA-256: ab5c36b988eee84f879d0303641702ce7957289814a4bd3c57121da81ca85f88
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by multiple heuristics as a redirector for phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the embedded URL is the primary indicator of a phishing attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+identify+point+of+view+in+a+story In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476443/normal_5fd5fb2e8eb99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489586/normal_5fd08d8b45ae1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470828/normal_601e666b7cd3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexanizisujufum.66ghz.com/eat_your_frog_brian_tracy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutodute.22web.org/fincen_suspicious_activity_report_fincen_report_111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413227/normal_6046773692a53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazobano.iblogger.org/calendrier_biodynamique_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405467/normal_6049344aec122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekanebiferi.iblogger.org/les_animaux_fantastiques_livre.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401703/normal_5fcccd8794088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468553/normal_605909951fbe6.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/telasebisu/blackpink_ice_cream_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tarajix/adaptec_5805_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e1d856a-8988-495e-8aa9-b6567c5f708e/cuantos_litros_hay_en_un_metro_cubico_de_diesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zosevid/naxizugipagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nodetuxapabara/metrics_to_evaluate_machine_learning_algorithms_in_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d2a6eff-478f-4636-8b19-a097b3cd70de/dakesiwiwodixorapotire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jolituzoji/84150227509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72abfbfc-1abe-4b1f-beaf-f19af73e8725/9331018217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f96543e-b72e-4035-8534-6b9ad3074d28/48521819118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazutun/9576116600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pufigaginoxizu.rf.gd/metformina_500_mg_costo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf36402a-3546-4e07-b570-aec0e460484a/28512415788.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_off00011b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1B 5216 bytes
SHA-256: a50fc7c9f6d9e2580ffe3c9c1dbbcb2b58e09462d1f6ec7b906893b7ba9d1657
font_01_sfnt_off00012d06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D06 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 98e75cb5e771246639d7c84f2c02d05cf018d13e3ba71350dc31d71679e6156b