Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3ac4ba5646fa7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-03-30 02:43:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 55abf6d2a6e55add996844813d7841da SHA-1: 5940c4d64fa6b6202a5d4c78dbe78e79776738f7 SHA-256: ca3ac4ba5646fa7cde2395cc5510fcb53c8963d152ac1e3148f1744014c5653b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, identified as a link farm, with the primary URL being a lure for "Semiconductor device fundamentals pdf". The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://kuzutuzo.ru/wix?keyword=semiconductor+device+fundamentals+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xonejalevesezom.sportsontheweb.net/votaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorightunion.com/fetaxemupolemivevagaposigpsmj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulepozobagepud.mygamesonline.org/pafizesorudetubadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katalog-siberian-force.online/70767306612s8c0w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xobitabab/hgii00M/budweiser_logo_vector_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tutabalero/hejbLha/art_pencil_drawing_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/javukapegami/hjMtChv/34992920053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://item-get.top/wordpress_new_user_registration_email_pluginj2s67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizezs.xyz/11245355244qqkvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cab29f57-2c52-49fd-941a-808179f6337d/44263156489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_a6346af9ed184890a12e5f6da358269f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1cc0e142-d6f3-4708-a14b-8d89b424d9cb/xilewexudafovopekuwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80bd62bb-d2d1-476c-86db-d9ebf429e03c/schwinn_coaster_brake_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desejole.myartsonline.com/javascript417_barcode_reader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4465aea-2954-435b-92d2-28694cca8620/45604038153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5df90f60-486e-46a7-b489-d74867c99154/ford_3000_tractor_for_sale_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://95049c82-e412-4913-a0b0-e03e83d5170a.filesusr.com/ugd/127d6e_2b35fc2d3b0e4d32937590beb4b5e252.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c175a093-4f3b-48fa-b731-b8b6e947b622/bakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cede4421-adbd-4640-a37e-8ba7613a115e/jexununerowowojukewugul.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_off0000e50b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50B 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd0cd4c7e94ee5b2952ffa0d1dae28dba5d94992acceab4a71f933b270facdf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF790 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 9054321f86d1300efddce29efac1d00971fed47543dc689cae0b3fed07c8253c