Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c15029911e56e9d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-03-01 18:41:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de08c7df32868fe317e9ae1f92ec5bc3 SHA-1: becf3f5d47e4de5deb3be9e5fed8a5e2b896490e SHA-256: c15029911e56e9d0c0ca6ac5401bcad7f85f755533d603e5f83234d58c3c7e69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to SEO-optimized content, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=nythendra+heroic+guide+2018
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414352/normal_601d87e7bf46d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424040/normal_601991f59cbea.pdf
    • https://finolija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134625313/a7e422528622.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366035/normal_602948a16dd61.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465133/normal_5feb883da8725.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419826/normal_5ff810ea51133.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393033/normal_5fec355ad596a.pdf
    • https://xowunaxevome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134679103/7355795.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jipodipotaj/hpAvhfH/off_road_4x4_truck_trails_parking_simulator.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/futamo/teliramanoni.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/punagilelabon/bookkeeping_template_excel_free.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/geraromu/79375830941.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tutasujal/android_default_button_text_color.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea82.bin
91c0b86af2ca314ce9605122e2abe56dab603536bb9ca0f4dcf745ec4e4e9d5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA82 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd87.bin
356659fd6d944437acfe2c328a4bf5d59840f16b688ea0eceee57962c05e71ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD87 12836 bytes