Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcd27d5207025ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-03-16 11:16:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 241c5c9e2f359f4c29158fe377c621ff SHA-1: 5ee96e8bbc048d7aef3ec9693fc7976ead647e1e SHA-256: bcd27d5207025ec55881c91289f1035ed0241386d88d70ecd60246a800233f50
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. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'hazard and risk assessment template'. The presence of numerous external URLs, particularly those hosted on disposable domains and suspicious TLDs like .ru and .online, points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host many links on potentially untrusted domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://nipisod.ru/123?utm_term=hazard+and+risk+assessment+template PDF link annotation
    • http://wepijafiguwenan.mywebcommunity.org/evolution_botany_notes_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydra.moscow/vesunivag9d1q6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prequester.online/biwunisisetut997o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nat-yoga.space/additional_math_igcsewg18l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instapriz365.site/wepefugaxatireladukuo8t6y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filuxunokenobud.mygamesonline.org/bisection_method_in_numerical_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuzinfo.ru/piduwafovoditupdqhy0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heretythere.site/rezuwabat6jikt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kakafeg.scienceontheweb.net/soft_skills_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobufuwiwid.medianewsonline.com/separador_de_documentos_online.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43d963ba-b531-4f28-84c6-38bb027e325b/cuisinart_electric_juicer_-_black_cje-500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9321b17-4223-4277-ac22-858ff4a872dd/how_do_you_know_if_your_plantronics_headset_is_charging.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3e9b1de-3f09-46da-8c4a-c2d1c3d07ecc/9568015891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5ef99f6-778f-40ff-b386-961b074be57c/99537062391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doriponesarom.myartsonline.com/full_body_stretch_routine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/91779b9c-0b86-4b28-b02f-cb49ac42004c/8641166506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b28c340d-6423-415a-8e15-76644fb79c8f/olevia_tv_232-s12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/995610ef-5e41-4f42-8398-d0f05f490698/fundamentals_of_logic_design_6th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13f72d4f-598b-4cec-b02b-4e548bb9b72c/how_to_measure_manual_dexterity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f40c0290-66e5-42d6-8505-cb5438ac23b9/what_is_my_self_love_language.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFD 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 07e3aa19158d086dcd70be8aed0fdbeb6e19a89bff37027d316dcf4e1dfbf456
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5D 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ba40a6971d398d3225fcdd873a7cb92a55eb1bc1f959316c5cd2db584606500c
font_02_sfnt_off000111f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34