Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3743e88922032ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-21 08:10:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: dd9762d899d7b354376cb65dd24594f8 SHA-1: 97e5f230d856f855eac0c3614955b745f84f2c4d SHA-256: c3743e88922032ef64334fa21f2144fba55fbe21e8a501f7bd6f925b08a14537
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/award?keyword=canine+parvovirus+treatment+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://netolenogafa.getenjoyment.net/zenasikimajipetebutarufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welomutulek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873792/9587226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinzsy-studio.design/composicin_qumica_de_la_atmosfera_terrestrepc7x5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ionatr.fun/end_of_days_radio_5_podcastr71e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedouche.xyz/zebeweroav9u9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakuberik.mywebcommunity.org/fetal_distress_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500447/normal_5feb995a979cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabemaladameg.medianewsonline.com/free_books_download_sites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusaburuku.22web.org/66034034828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vamonaxegijugi.22web.org/29362646129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4469143/normal_5fed5440595c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepekogiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637498/ea81a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomakugagazeg.iblogger.org/what_are_the_properties_of_transaction_in_dbms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuxesimufimiti.mypressonline.com/arthurian_romances_chretien_de_troyes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mewuvirinikupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134505229/vesadepiriguzofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copyrightreports.com/padobuwujobimafinamigobp772i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457011/normal_60402364dcb37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixelbarista.com/lindsey_stirling_sheet_music_shatter_meul3nr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7a9095e9-4ba3-4ff7-9406-a75d0382ce8a.filesusr.com/ugd/db93e9_8f512a9d25794551bf9a097acfe9f915.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f77c8dad-41d7-4a8f-8d8d-c05149a3a236.filesusr.com/ugd/36d413_0b5da208aefd4ed7a7f14d7bb206cbaf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://keregimuw.onlinewebshop.net/how_to_pass_the_pmp_exam_in_14_days.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e6c529cc-411f-4195-b5ea-7b5fd081490a.filesusr.com/ugd/b7ab08_7d6e800dc4c3412baf697cb6892306f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1138278f-e8d0-45ef-aef3-dbdd7428ac52.filesusr.com/ugd/5be868_78ce71238acd4a66979362ca439e5e13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3d7304b5-8527-495f-b913-615d6f357a43.filesusr.com/ugd/ef7486_55e865346d1b4f52b4ab9a9cded24242.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lokijerupejida.epizy.com/is_there_a_free_willy_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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BE 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 43b5b65ca9e96e5188dc903bfb4cbf4853b2445a1b83495013681bb3ffa213a1
font_01_sfnt_off00010716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10716 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b0c32901ba5e5adc5ab16272fbad35696af1a3f6caa4b1a22be3f2b0d5db4b5b