Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be74dec8564a8e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-04-01 19:08:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b1f1c7bb31790053d559ebb6ba1d9daf SHA-1: d468db1b7088a66e02a338654197e38d260acfbc SHA-256: be74dec8564a8e0b07c64ce5e670d3099cbadfe295e2fd14095ad57bcde9767e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to download malware or engage in phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://bologen.ru/aws?utm_term=fundamentals+of+game+design+2nd+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mulepava/haZpiic/hovercraft_takedown_2p_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokavosutab.22web.org/97378395921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwert-ita.fun/how_to_play_spore_without_registration_coded21eu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491926/normal_60186b96d9fe5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edaeda.moscow/que_significa_taller_de_induccion4j0qc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408862/normal_606528f94b2e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zisujetev.iblogger.org/assembler_des_avec_foxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446398/normal_5fd2460a42e46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rinugezig/gih9PCO/into_the_badlands_blade_battle_apk_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406482/normal_6026f20d43ea2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changepass.online/ukulele_strumming_patterns_4_4d4fg6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tudosiki/gjCi0Dq/loximunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470836/normal_6052effd52fc4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/Gijjhq7/vepoxonojimugapotap.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://ea74ff18-003d-4094-8454-8d7e15e33abb.filesusr.com/ugd/50de67_8f48a91a1c84457ab523198574128b10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bibirosomuxir.epizy.com/dekenonakepusedinerive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://19a39513-20cc-49d1-a75c-e30ce0314142.filesusr.com/ugd/f99735_3352b301d46e4b24aff8980b221a911c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kokasog.epizy.com/66490595709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narumigopu.epizy.com/setting_time_on_citizen_skyhawk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2489a575-72f7-492f-b117-28cfe4a4d2a3.filesusr.com/ugd/d81705_0deb88aae7c44c44aa0996dfda36425c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://551f0ad2-75d1-4009-b90b-2f3e3e20230b.filesusr.com/ugd/c2bf0a_5e2570aab0914132aefc306f39e09fa4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d0a6b1b1-1773-4622-8b5e-0ab5990a7ed3.filesusr.com/ugd/b90ba1_f467272a486043b0a7403fad8af41145.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA91 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 7a8dfa60f07dbcde6973e9b6eebf3090de6986701c335e2c18ee08f62b41c72d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB4 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 6c1a39c1ab9a928ce6decafaca621c34ff38e3b883bf463095c5716d448d14fc
font_02_sfnt_off000120c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176