Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2c12197afedaf0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-03-24 18:11:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 49da91d33e18285005429bb38fcc1465 SHA-1: dd255961034ac9e6cb28e315028cd1b12f509e69 SHA-256: c2c12197afedaf0f7080a79539f8a315a219216acf5679f57f4887f81b254d68
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to a redirector URL, indicating a link farm designed to funnel users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically phishing. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure, likely leading to credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=what%2527s+scary+stories+to+tell+in+the+dark+rated PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/boduzapun/mTxnkLB/vafizixoromuvugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/reruzemafow/jBBOR5N/84892208095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/runudori/hiRhdji/basketball_game_tonight_channel_directv.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/af3b86c7-3257-4a96-81de-70c8910c8f0a/how_to_check_printer_ink_levels_on_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5598a3f-766d-48cf-bcba-dea91c11e10e/why_is_my_ipad_not_charging_on_my_computer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bupijila/best_photo_editor_for_android_offline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://933527c5-e005-4225-a3aa-05fee46c7696.filesusr.com/ugd/b51dd5_6ccab84b112148e89d927214bfff48d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f38be386-5799-403b-9303-fb121113655a.filesusr.com/ugd/6f1aa7_c11cd8bac56c4726be83a3059066f2fd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/petuzutemixuvod/how_to_get_hobbies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b83c41c-56af-4896-af86-5df61f967404/zoom_h4n_sd_card_speed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/naxizugenabi/informe_austeridad_del_gasto_segundo_trimestre_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/babuxufarizuxur/android_custom_listview_adapter_in_fragment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/096b2966-466b-4cc3-8a36-4bcab828d11a/woguritiwivezoroxipezawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kitakilesa/ruger_lcp_ii_22lr_10_round_magazine_2_pack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1580f21e-fc75-4350-9669-3be8b7525729.filesusr.com/ugd/eff6cf_6baf48e0aa7547afb6bde50a76aa2b23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac864984-0a26-46ca-a11d-ec35634954aa/88685544047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vonusirukete/59670466744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://be9c8297-50e9-4ec8-be22-7cc4068ef96a.filesusr.com/ugd/fc3b0b_e9e2c851de9145e48266a85e98d7c657.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d3f0d1e-fc2a-43ba-8222-e09664e06f34/jumperoo_age_stop.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_off00012126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12126 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef4812ff353aaa7e23409a363690dc7b6647576860eb0b4f4c91f1dcb612d96
font_01_sfnt_off00013241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13241 12300 bytes
SHA-256: 160a4944d397b463df23097e08571de39c2ae86b1a3fc3368162f8260a109dd4
font_02_sfnt_off00015b94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B94 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2