Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb182d94fa255cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-04-04 16:39:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ff9305952bd201ae806156ff1b6eaa0a SHA-1: d3d31ab603cd752911983adef8b8558467e47a39 SHA-256: cb182d94fa255cd76435fe153e00ffc0e5dd42a44d328634032bd6ed2348ff9e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, including ClamAV's Pdf.Phishing.Trojan signature. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on file-sharing services, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=cambridge+igcse+ict+2nd+edition+pdf+free+download', indicates a lure for educational content to entice downloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the heuristics suggest it may exploit PDF vulnerabilities or embed malicious JavaScript to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=cambridge+igcse+ict+2nd+edition+pdf+free+download
    • https://lanoxujuzon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134630121/pukebufidoweroj.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470524/normal_5fd24a8e0a98f.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407724/normal_600f1eaf869fa.pdf
    • https://vonufire.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596457/rawedovejek.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404969/normal_5fca219198839.pdf
    • http://vowujebotoza.mywebcommunity.org/89285517011.pdf
    • https://zezebeburopixem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326834/8164063.pdf
    • https://vugilove.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234765/c173b5.pdf
    • https://bukekumagisalej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135333054/nelunavimezebo.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423148/normal_605181a138a9e.pdf
    • https://gebifafotuzuwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324040/filezupoterufi-fodetowavam.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kubafipefo/igjgBhj/visual_studio_code_css_formatter.pdf
    • https://wirimodarezekas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314182/7ad76.pdf
    • https://ritajixudigozik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135345652/84ae30a85ee.pdf
    • http://xizugef.medianewsonline.com/simple_keto_dinner_recipes_for_one.pdf
    • http://gejesixave.scienceontheweb.net/bazakodajesalojixiside.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xevezele/OCrjeif/application_format_in_gujarati_for_job.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nanijamu/jhjb9aS/dominos_near_me_delivery_menu.pdf
    • https://jomozupofaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134399246/354e0722b8fca.pdf
    • https://wigufigavotafo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452860/sijuvajotitesalim.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a42a741-e65e-46b6-b6d0-9aa605a72a20/navy_os_nec_list.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/158ef871-ed0d-49f4-bdf1-bd335a14ac8c/14744731293.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcb1.bin
1160418db78a074d3d95a862f3a6254348fb5d3ad9e6ff130e6cb03a21e38e43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB1 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe2.bin
b1c0de6f78f752656ec797445fbd939d87ecaed7b3ad20f177f82a4bbe9f58a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE2 10360 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011377.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11377 4324 bytes