Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53a257cca3e6b00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-04-02 04:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 254e2fe51a3e35aed4cab4d9925d94c2 SHA-1: d3b6604c4b47ac95907bc3766cc970e2bcc1f356 SHA-256: c53a257cca3e6b00d39a5417f8ce52b0cf1ff43e4dfdeb8e0f95e486a6ddd41f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=things+that+begin+with+p PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414152/normal_605fa38d76392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410985/normal_6021a27d53b14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384464/normal_5ffc1341dd99a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451045/normal_604f3165c5b91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476001/normal_601295ad6e35f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483097/normal_5fc68e4137dec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411918/normal_5fcc367a80187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473049/normal_602422c730348.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/1b0d4b26-183c-4e97-a35e-d647d2573778/finding_angles_in_shapes_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f45e8cc7-f916-423a-8ad1-22e582bd99db/mixipusixilafira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8be23776-b4c1-4129-86cb-0cf5d87a2c14/panofegerogemobemuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9f349447-249b-4747-956a-316fe86e371b.filesusr.com/ugd/d2b720_0c1de9ec238c46e6a2b97c9f91976539.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/risalenefazozo/jidepixipudegetomelopaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b4140449-9b96-4148-8619-c9b3eed7b48c.filesusr.com/ugd/c33cdb_1b396f1c4f90406a9e4204da26709d2e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aed022ca-8a9d-452d-9022-56a74a585a14.filesusr.com/ugd/4d548e_710021d1f3414328b8a476a9249773b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dacea3bc-b1e7-4f5a-b7e8-fc6bfb116b46/cisco_ccna_training_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xamapebonijos/meviwesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee7d4406-5e70-4989-961d-7be427370e8a/physical_and_chemical_properties_of_seawater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/862b527b-2ef3-45ca-a5cc-f84f624e74ea/what_does_the_little_black_heart_emoji_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9dd7142d-8b98-4f52-a05e-66cc31ad251c/81820171991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00378590-4ea8-4c1d-8ad0-985bc218360f/98879061441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bomupi/wheel_horse_rye_whiskey_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://18b09f4e-de4d-4c1b-9fe6-be55c63b1c00.filesusr.com/ugd/cd81e9_2a06baaaf27c4d1c863f2fc6972478f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/848b6ec1-c325-4aa3-8b8b-050b6f77b623/4940706521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kavalukato/libro_de_los_sueos_numeros_quiniela.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_off0000f4e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E7 4812 bytes
SHA-256: 9c35257aeabc22621e555cf1d8e218d1e32dacb61b8063aa32db1dbd8688c290
font_01_sfnt_off00010542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10542 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 96ba25342abf22d0274c7a9d877972192261feeaf6d9c41166b9ff8fdbc69929
font_02_sfnt_off000129ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129ED 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71