Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3cdcbb234843f7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-03-22 07:23:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: c368c6a5a698cffef1a02c9d0f72c823 SHA-1: 138b9e2f4fb0a317f424786d26c8464901f729f0 SHA-256: c3cdcbb234843f7a02ad06559bda2dcd28cf4bd30b84c01c2aee284cef6886b2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are likely part of a phishing or link-farming scheme. The PDF structure and the presence of external URIs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dugedepap.ru/award?keyword=thanissaro+bhikkhu+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://zhk-samolet-krasnodar.info/logitech_m325_bluetooth_verbinden6k5xz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xevowuto/es6qEkv/us_political_news_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/falugojafat/jjf2ghK/new_york_times_co_stock_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcaporirternet-interbank-pe.com/punipite05bm4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zotexezedomukuj.iblogger.org/forikatigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raifaisentgo.online/ruzibinbuw3i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creditscorehelp.info/how_to_program_my_charter_remote_to_my_sanyo_tvncvsu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nemanive/hhIwKhg/77549999619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sadopore/jjfsRig/40388215865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ek-arenda.ru/the_chrysalids_movie0e9eu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creamwalls.online/semuxojobbewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gexedamej/H1ghzgd/deadly_traps_premium_adventure_of_hell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123dutch.com/cub_cadet_526_swe_manualbohnr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xebosulog/NmllChg/kunipinilusapijavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/posaleren/bhgfljb/66127105648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busforpay.online/oracle_database_19c_11git08h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funogager.22web.org/homemade_alfredo_nutrition_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakartapro.xyz/how_to_enter_promo_code_on_dunkin_donuts_appd28uh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedsbadgesforms.com/best_english_to_spanish_translation_onlinet2rp9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/degixodip/6vicje6/36245363474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://xusijaxux.rf.gd/blank_calendar_template_november_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wegarasuw.epizy.com/lopomuwazizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimewukefaja.rf.gd/what_are_some_male_greek_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kobitosen.epizy.com/angular_6_form_validation_only_numbers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zinebozozapi.rf.gd/information_asymmetry_market_failure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuginifetulad.epizy.com/13215874459.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001030f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030F 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 6daabeffc797cf61c6974587edcef39428c2a04469453c5ebd8402dea552677b
font_01_sfnt_off000114d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D2 9256 bytes
SHA-256: 4cec31f29976a23b17aecc955c868711fb6589aecc441eb8be6fa8bfdc784c80
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8A 12244 bytes
SHA-256: 5951677316bb02461118ffa3b322d76aa0e7b11d639babff2afc29f5e0ef0e4f