Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac0a64cdb36ff46b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-03-09 19:07:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a740995efccdc3cfc12d9b90954d768a SHA-1: c8ad752aad4b91393b9151255b655d4c3b5b793e SHA-256: ac0a64cdb36ff46b208d3b4bec78773ee7fe62b1854cd04e439e70f5aaa3424c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or suspicious domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, and the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF creation and a keyword search, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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
  • 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://golowaki.ru/award?keyword=medical+dictionary+english+to+tamil+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://tesocoin.online/tomma_graves_frankfort_kyzl3oe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-copyrightnoticehelp.com/test_de_inteligencia_emocional_para_nios_de_preescolar4aglt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mekozeka.66ghz.com/pufezanekoxiselunelozafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashion-deals.xyz/pipipi_pipipi_pi_pi_pi_electronicadk83n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photoforce.ru/1961147326097m2r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightly.store/tidalasegawxxzl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polypak.site/dungeons_and_dragons_animated_figuresm2189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalmedialit.com/692837283256w8sc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://construt.site/philips_norelco_1150x_razorx14on.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamajan.space/seamless_understanding_the_bible_as_one_complete_story6vg0s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dresdenpharma.ru/8134624888b5q8r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d2471d2-cdcc-4e73-9355-d6215ae95eb0/love_language_survey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimegovo.epizy.com/insurgent_full_movie_mp4_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bidemewufa/422861117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f8ba888e-8f71-4fde-8303-550399648f4e.filesusr.com/ugd/17ce20_91f6e823bb804adba32f36736be33bcf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tamobalasu/nonilumivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekaxerawuzizuj.epizy.com/56441641005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fcdf0819-2179-4684-bb4b-82741e00dc69/percy_jackson_books_in_series.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a3c35cc3-4a3f-4d41-ab51-8b3e4b114d30.filesusr.com/ugd/2b25b5_d7f34576f100488c9ec1637276599cc2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://beranaja.epizy.com/lajapojetoxisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_8c554870dfc54da09f25121cb2442c44.pdf?index=trueIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 3398c19281c6640fccab406c16f0a9725fa7337b9eeed4241cd69ef001be0b47
font_01_sfnt_off000101e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E7 4460 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8e33712a0f949a328f1677388bc3fdd2cc1b60de45971c1d15903cb9eb4657
font_02_sfnt_off000111c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C2 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 3c83217e3024cfa0133a810d0edb44f12507222df5efb0e851d8c1899e86673f
font_03_sfnt_off00013689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13689 16364 bytes
SHA-256: b659bfc6ff5689910210d50de8847be648feb143f305910b87386f8a0cc1ff72