Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afa07dfa61b9d47c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-06 08:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 7f9d65957910efdacf1d445de6f46d8b SHA-1: 30a61989f3e718725f13c6a57e6908288364293a SHA-256: afa07dfa61b9d47c8e7cf07bf564acd8e4650361f5c3c2df196f32488a6c8164
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains an embedded URI pointing to 'irlanc.ru', which is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to financial awareness in bank exams, combined with a call-to-action phrase, further supporting a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/pbw?utm_term=what+is+financial+awareness+in+bank+exams PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449965/normal_603029fc9220a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382773/normal_60bc22900918a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445869/normal_603bdeafaf925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367912/normal_6006f03763e61.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/c97a76a3-157a-41e0-bb47-c4c1dbb1b467/88271857939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da3f16f7-08a6-4311-bbf5-0a70d02ae1b8/92519988539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3edee5cb-98cb-4914-8455-1d6f2d20016e/sennheiser_hdr_120_replacement_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67db5d49-09c2-4348-8452-7596d23f155a/dewebizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/055a9b39-1890-4aa9-9e27-60dbeb133a87/lulibinepanuvido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc828c1f-4c31-4d2e-bf6b-3baf5f0af3a8/87843579150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5078562-6edd-4731-a743-f49244ae49e3/college_physics_serway_11th_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokulus.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144655119/free_welcome_bonus_no_deposit_sport.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7cc110ee-4d6e-413b-9f4c-6e3ae596aa91/fepeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xovakovawup.pbworks.com/f/runuzifisanegekupexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3620f45d-d5d1-47c3-a2e7-3add022824ad/9388351231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizunebapod.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144460845/55482434933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedetuwi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144413241/the_power_of_critical_thinking_5th_canadian_edition_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5e5c82f-30a5-4639-8d57-ebe2a3a83dc3/gekone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de1cff19-411c-407e-ab7a-fdd5d08e0095/the_book_of_hymns_methodist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxidad.pbworks.com/f/mevixixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/142b11c7-e1d4-4f5b-a5b5-2a9e4ade5147/how_to_close_an_option_trade_on_thinkorswim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jabodawo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144609015/kitipozawakonaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paderukut.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144434034/zapokanijujigolino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevibufile.pbworks.com/f/33988101780.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_off0000e50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50E 5500 bytes
SHA-256: d93733b8b7fbedea697daf8e2d348d9ec3fccad8d8d4facf8d79d2dbe316cfef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B4 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 672deeadf7ee0d66b16d14133b52ece64ae32013e3af2910ac50b64378423ef6