Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c21a95f5291b16ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-03-31 14:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4ebb1e0de34ef9ce98909cd82a2b362e SHA-1: 3de06f04addf32ffd57409984bc0294a50f44274 SHA-256: c21a95f5291b16ed9e1ddec7e20156adeb869180cf4bd7182d0bb1e901842fb4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary URL, 'https://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=sketchup+warehouse+2019+free+download', indicates a lure for software downloads.

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://mezovuduw.ru/strik?utm_term=sketchup+warehouse+2019+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/voguzasijur/Lsjeib3/sudoku_hardest_puzzle_ever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiwebusimevadeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346158/6352000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watogoda.mypressonline.com/why_is_norse_mythology_popular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496582/normal_5fd03045790d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jawunefuda.mygamesonline.org/adventures_of_tom_sawyer_novel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zubavagi/UZlhjWO/gacha_life_2_release_date_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajeziriga.scienceontheweb.net/tuwunututata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letijefa/hbjhicB/9105677526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuvuzuvikedatun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134529562/4939684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409826/normal_604f77795f559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopalirigel.mypressonline.com/23401370207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ripelavezomosiv.iblogger.org/94345916411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://batofudinub.epizy.com/will_cyberpunk_be_fixed_on_ps4_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ae08466-3392-4e77-a9d3-a39a63925a70/sony_icf-c1_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40a347ce-acfa-49bb-be11-c226f50dfa3b/the_shack_vb_winter_wonderland.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4aeaa008-6917-4458-a3fc-73f9209a4dc4/zugatofabebusotevabene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vebadivikini.rf.gd/12511224744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowuguja.myartsonline.com/78597299180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/089190ac-4b9f-4885-b558-820e852a7fd7/what_is_human_environment_interaction_in_geography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6a60482-2edc-444b-96f4-7b3b747b1145/no_game_no_life_season_2.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_off0000d290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD290 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 1eec3deaf72b61551edff7efdfdd0d385041782c5958a52879e943755cc1a745
font_01_sfnt_off0000e66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66A 5984 bytes
SHA-256: e74865f869465bcdb85976b56ec840cc3b68a0caa06b62602c1e8bf24da3d820
font_02_sfnt_off0000fadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADD 11684 bytes
SHA-256: 8c450c8ed6f57f8a5430df8862993167fda995057ce0a56600070d0edbf58074