Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4281d8a1afb5665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-02-18 04:14:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21dc5f9a1464d98537459c8c506a9ca8 SHA-1: 7128f262d6e2715694144a5b7438ab89e1aa5005 SHA-256: c4281d8a1afb5665f953a6174b8f473991522c52bc1295462a27afd443aa2d8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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/aws?utm_term=one+touch+ultra+reset
    • http://redit.fun/aoa_full_form_in_societykxd70.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ketalidukepi/SjgmAJj/webun.pdf
    • https://zunurevupuvofas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438471/81aebffb83ae.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dejuxafe/GLyeMjj/dojefewabipeva.pdf
    • http://lixuzixewufixib.66ghz.com/aviation_mechanic_airframe_test_guide.pdf
    • https://tuvaxijilitug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668501/fodemelelu.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bepoweruga/nalgdhb/73429281781.pdf
    • https://sikiwakasizo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318116/0f64c274b9.pdf
    • http://lufesemi.iblogger.org/77425991546.pdf
    • https://gaditefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712385/bamulinogabul-zizolepogebejez-tukowudoripafag.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lepudijazur/h7hdXii/coin_drop_game_taco_bell.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gixirojozogufux/dark_souls_2_guide_dlc.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bagokiko/61773834168.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xazarujokemus/98610317684.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zozuxukoxo/37714724197.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kewuxejikiwe/24269414933.pdf
    • http://zakivijojinikij.epizy.com/lebron_jr_scouting_report.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6fe.bin
ea5cacda5c4d37daccdffd0e55e0f82b8000a095acf6765792f9b77aad7d5ff6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FE 4916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a6.bin
330fae147c30e4dd8c8d8836c5699c5e99d9d991200c42d57eb021a03b90f0e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A6 14032 bytes