Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b70542e39db8ae6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-04-05 08:56:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ca1e0cbd975c400ac57a752cfc2e511d SHA-1: 07d0c85d0524b4fc85d35533ffae9ed985f01fe9 SHA-256: b70542e39db8ae6d3efd39445116d1f0b3e9f7c1bf70ce2e133f27ae517970dc
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users to download further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://mezovuduw.ru/award?keyword=canon+lide+110+pdf+driver PDF link annotation
    • http://boraguw.medianewsonline.com/xipoxitiboxeriseguzulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zutolewe.mywebcommunity.org/dugijumepagosujopigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zinobelusetepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318062/fefopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lojadisexudo/qx9hkjd/zujova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mukuwasoveta.sportsontheweb.net/alcohol_addiction_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezefuvin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134496048/tuvikelenijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosutob.getenjoyment.net/52091254336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutefadeba.scienceontheweb.net/romulo_betancourt_venezuela_politica_y_petroleo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/junikesiza/cJjjRja/dungeon_golden_retrievers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jimumakevaji/jcjaiet/drumsticks_vegetable_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dimopun.mywebcommunity.org/dafafodanawawutatesuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/saboretiki/iSwLdig/2010_barrett_jackson_auction_results.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazuxujepov/54045650487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bf4a211-8618-4950-9fc5-3e379d2fee44/dulerajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/patilawasu/96270431660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fodose/plc_program_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redifigikutusoj.myartsonline.com/jovejoxefexurawuxipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f631b1f-eb17-4e80-8cb0-6da8dcf33c6c/moxazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamigawox.atwebpages.com/mercury_blues_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ee5e7fe-6006-4969-b511-2f05583f48dc/sederokefexebigukif.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001326d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326D 4844 bytes
SHA-256: ac7867aa4a415ede931600d94bad39f12f92d6f60b33cfae57de047b9b531f2d
font_01_sfnt_off000142ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142EE 2268 bytes
SHA-256: 8770a9d16f6ec8ed1e04f7f31595c1fd3834ff76ff6f55291086ab87d6d749e8
font_02_sfnt_off00014d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D00 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 4cfff4531ca26dce44501cb7dde0e74c3203270ff4286727450a27c80a0223b8
font_03_sfnt_off0001731a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1731A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c