Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0235310f4a0d25d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-05-11 04:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8c07fcfd106f4960e832a24107e226eb SHA-1: f72b85686047af5e42ce3c68d5d8627bf56f230c SHA-256: b0235310f4a0d25db92edef48744e8da0eabb267edf1edcb225aefb176a40972
126 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 high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain metadata related to legal definitions, likely a pretext to disguise malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=definition+of+state+responsibility+under+international+law PDF link annotation
    • https://titamifafipife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315234/wuwezokuxizewi_zagiwepepalufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piwomokoxik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135335333/502365e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortuneo.biz/livro_paixo_por_vencer_jack_welch_downloadcmez8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420930/normal_6024c1282668c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duvejajenivogik.getenjoyment.net/padma_shri_award_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturfresh.fun/minecraft_free_download_pc_windows_10_full_versionmifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakekizedexu.getenjoyment.net/burger_king_gutscheine_august_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392191/normal_604ca07a7655d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wivevadevenumet.mywebcommunity.org/50198824336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoneeuro.pro/compare_rechargeable_vacuum_cleanersm5kv1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366347/normal_6036b72a92c1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wijejotuxaketuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338978/8814987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotloveme.online/ac_market_apk_free_download_latest_versiono95ho.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megahit.space/sharp_aquos_blinking_red_power_lightvkbnp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakowabanitewot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134898259/3b1c5df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ponitunol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747778/5349295.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/e3bb774f-0577-48db-913e-75f42894f534/what_are_the_examples_of_phrasal_verbs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff09b808-0ea1-464e-bb89-1b5ccef6f004/jbl_sb400_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b609eb6a-529d-4c85-b82d-51c0b494177d/tojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6bd8feb-dbaa-4b6c-91cd-0bf3f8f61d6e/arduino_mega_328_datasheet.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_off000109cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CC 5368 bytes
SHA-256: c28265139b06249ba1a9543d4b640a55cb40627aac66156f8264be52ceb9c1af
font_01_sfnt_off00011c36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C36 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6102d0764385a0addd55b4779b34562ce2e6f45b2f27420584bcbb1eb31b48