Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b32bb4e644393217…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-03-25 09:48:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 1515eabbd6a9a69448d37f5fe8a4e945 SHA-1: d5a9bab97b28832757b65c76453e53db5ae74b80 SHA-256: b32bb4e644393217b8fd9d1a600082c215a61811ad2200701033b497aed66e78
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, references 'hsslive plus one 2019 answer key', a common lure for educational phishing scams. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports the attack pattern of using a deceptive document to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://resalured.ru/123?utm_term=hsslive+plus+one+2019+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://teaapple.space/delhi_bus_appi3q1o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallehub.xyz/kezukapewizivafelilapmrj1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istlan.space/8660128872163p1s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoshtorki.shop/crysis_3_fix_crack_free_downloadaksom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreprodukti.com/onn_tv_codes_for_xfinity_remote96j5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443588/normal_602f33d9ee8a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tophomework.space/nidifd22ps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aov.one/okimat_2_remoter7h21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gprofights.ru/going_postal_tv_guidey02lw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425235/normal_6044fce2a7b03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energierecrute-emplois.com/91085392646za8zo.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/sonutopexaramuf/2013_porsche_911_carrera_performance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bipepezuwed/doorbell_transformer_for_nest_hello.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://920f4c01-5fd6-4c40-8b27-b99972fecb60.filesusr.com/ugd/d63aaf_b16c3681dd5f4e6c964de9018a3909ed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e8e87dc5-637d-47ba-9de6-e7d98d123d78.filesusr.com/ugd/a69a03_7b2d1e385e4640359a7ad96ff05e3fe9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ac36a2f-1533-488b-b282-cf34cdace458.filesusr.com/ugd/bcfc12_67162abcc1a14d0ebc3a0951a6216ac9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zozofufulolig/bronze_age_mindset_jordan_peterson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dutuzanob/fafijawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_87925a43075d4ababfedb04ddd3f005b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e0bfa911-60eb-4c53-bd8d-ceec25156dfb.filesusr.com/ugd/0a052f_341c2b2f37b448ecaed9e2f9a6c68e29.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE460 5572 bytes
SHA-256: ecd2fe9d15d0672de564fb3aea37200f3ac6ac05eef9fe9d484bf549fde2bc06
font_01_sfnt_off0000f77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 12836 bytes
SHA-256: cf0742c74acdda40549982ce7c45f5d595f3109ba44df4e30a25a76c72bd6ae8