Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdd7db304df15513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-05-08 03:44:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 510ecba78c7ad2fc797dca2190265a77 SHA-1: d2f394401c0a5160a7b555c04a22beeb31812c2e SHA-256: bdd7db304df1551309ddad615eb358f0c5da124e4396748aa22613113987f53b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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/strik?utm_term=illusions+the+adventures+of+a+reluctant+messiah+quotes PDF link annotation
    • http://lunesygets.xyz/21666317740ty5dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebadgeform.com/cook_county_sheriff_test_study_guidega9sf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registrat.space/10179024553fxci2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salleapp.xyz/45854062387r58f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daravto18.ru/476071252869vkqj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://nobufep.epizy.com/10604818447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c48f32a0-619a-4bf1-866f-3236952345dc/2005_honda_odyssey_misfire_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/583c6439-f9cf-48a2-b1ea-c47b0d8c764e/will_usmle_step_1_become_pass_fail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7292b199-6d7c-4e84-b646-7854114497ba.filesusr.com/ugd/53361e_cc5c80ff51044a8a92a2de533f7bc3ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pefanusomi.epizy.com/ahts_vessel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://66c7139a-03c0-45fe-98d3-e817d1e01442.filesusr.com/ugd/de2db5_a50c4193d1b3496281ffff23012a32a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ac56fc1-f7ee-4366-9cb2-1681469c68ee.filesusr.com/ugd/b914b5_8ecaf48a54a14d23bc9ed91586f48541.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19894a3c-30a4-4711-a1a3-9bd511404f14/viwixego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c06d174a-caca-4ab2-b5a0-4525cd3135d4.filesusr.com/ugd/856cea_4a94f78c87e94d26b320d608f4e1e8da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dipijiz.epizy.com/31307297278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watokugen.epizy.com/fluoroscopic_guided_injection_hip_lt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dibezul.epizy.com/aksum_kingdom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cd70d4e5-4a1a-4071-96d1-f2415ea5ece1.filesusr.com/ugd/7f46b5_3ffa86d7ff624a94a4365497d36debcf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a79fbd7c-12a6-44fe-9d3c-43dc2b0795a8.filesusr.com/ugd/f95141_779e4da613f24b2787aa9ca510910421.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gofugukalizugo.epizy.com/48043451146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/86479758-09e9-448a-b0a6-167abd8ba726/is_the_green_mile_a_short_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koravas.rf.gd/design_of_concrete_structures_15th_edition_darwin_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niwarapa.epizy.com/ways_to_live_forever_book.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_off000126fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FE 8824 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf400a64b44d9b97aebe749ea2c9024de7af07dd8bd27fbf03ac2f7c9e2e037
font_01_sfnt_off000144ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144CA 5384 bytes
SHA-256: bfd80f1a47bb558bd4818320c93ca40bdfa0581234904734f86939f1916a7cb1
font_02_sfnt_off000156f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156F2 11400 bytes
SHA-256: ef060c4d055a9ae65d79052562ecebb120d278274ea2963b57036cac6983c2d5