Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3f086a2f93e3ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-03-13 23:16:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 0f3e1a61ff66e128516ad79c12446b12 SHA-1: d587572db8288c87b373018ead0ec6924bef7fa1 SHA-256: c3f086a2f93e3ebf9c6e4ba11c3acbf33c9ce3b9d02a1dfedb5695bbc9075755
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to passing an algebra test. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification further supports its malicious nature, likely serving as a dropper for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://jottigo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+pass+algebra+1+keystone PDF link annotation
    • http://100naturals.fun/android_notification_channel_example_githubmlqqo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/wafasitowazupu2ubt3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380383/normal_60329e896ff85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varemajog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585454/4424260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453335/normal_602ac059407e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4391303/normal_5ff0bf794fcec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384831/normal_5ffe9b8f5e118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuzilemuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134479477/sodisoxiwuvine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losujawidejope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310111/9196202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366400/normal_5ffa30d04a32b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rutizinudepedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134483735/1515494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinekamawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776883/be901de2f493515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383571/normal_603d8c360d65d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485822/normal_60071e6a1fbe4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448539/normal_601ebc66af73a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dovulavavo/appraisee_s_comments_on_performance_appraisal_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f0198b83-f3fe-41b4-8315-bacd7eabb238.filesusr.com/ugd/2b3f46_4aebfb543d134bdc9b9554f5e9c834d1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2daccc73-8708-4113-a26a-4f38906335d9.filesusr.com/ugd/f65175_c3cddb605fec4488b18c7e72ca1aab33.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/perurulexi/atmel_studio_6._1_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://229c3593-bb94-4e5d-9b9f-ca3747df48ef.filesusr.com/ugd/145364_a5fab30e3db54652a3f98b4cd0486c9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a6132035-7465-4fe4-be4e-2faa96c22dab.filesusr.com/ugd/cf950b_630b5a71ceb448c198bddb717829191e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sezewu/who_has_prepared_thanksgiving_dinners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/regovadeje/state_bar_texas_form_promissory_note.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a40b6db0-1679-4e03-879f-ac5827b9aa7d.filesusr.com/ugd/dba42a_1f82ad363ab34217beea79d874fbcf8c.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000eccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCF 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 8093c28d957376f19e03985b7ed641ae72c029b9315b6dd24c319bee13c543d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF53 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 1e800c706392513b8c229e1ccda4fb932dbf1a78be6045b89d3faddec4556f73