Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c641d81c48f115e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-03-29 20:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: a235c2502a3df0b58e8f78c4d3ccb996 SHA-1: fa0acb2fc3ead16c6bd75d568eb00b6c8d0a39fc SHA-256: c641d81c48f115e57f2f6b5f016045b12e83b895849c8cd075d49dad149b62ba
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded links and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://kuzutuzo.ru/aws?utm_term=algebra+1+eoc+2019+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://digitalcalakk1.xyz/oshenwatch_luxe_manualn8xjv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otshelnik.net/61481767485hihhd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waystep.site/mujawe25tc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vojofarakiva/2Amiihd/my_t_mobile_login_bill_pay_one_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rizuwevize/yOT7jdn/xunebiritawowizoxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lujobitazeku/ZJFgjih/silifafalorajuxirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crawlmqyu.space/bomemuveregoxk6u3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miwavilusaji/ajijfTl/solupakokakozemivabobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slimerecipe.org/doteruxowedegidojumev20iwk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/batumozi/Yyicihg/autonics_panel_meter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pidodalatip/uiiAihd/31938957476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/2fjdugc/candomble_religion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suwefazimim.medianewsonline.com/xikupukomodonupegudonasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruwonumatag/b9ehiha/91160397996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiwapadenejeza.getenjoyment.net/the_biographical_encyclopedia_of_islamic_philosophy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://piwolimosopobu.myartsonline.com/lefene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ef3866b-83d7-4780-b5a0-5fd6ee4bed88/94009783043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pevipitoz.atwebpages.com/adele_hello_karaoke_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3857ddc0-2b33-46ba-b4a8-ebef9b167687.filesusr.com/ugd/5cc0d5_91e4c486f07749de8bd086dd8c884262.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d8b2927-5c4d-40df-b593-c6bd35e19528.filesusr.com/ugd/1adac8_3250ac77a792401683bc353659ac4916.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://34e223d5-b18a-4f89-96b3-7c58aa965d90.filesusr.com/ugd/440e29_719797a1465c496bba6c5b8b318311dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://ruvemad.myartsonline.com/encyclopdie_animaux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30f2bb7f-0250-4149-bd16-1d3799e47b63/human_anatomy__physiology_laboratory_manual_cat_version.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_off0000e283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE283 5672 bytes
SHA-256: 1dff54f6f315797d9de6109123bde4d03dfb867f517c3eacf2f3ccb2e7152cdd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F5 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 385e040d334d1b50f54e95dfbd843f0859e3d78e8b0646c24c8b348ab3726fb7