Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd1ca74d44a0c700…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-04-06 19:56:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3c99ad47a848af153697ce586e0aae0e SHA-1: dbbd7ddeb1fc05d99aa720f1adf3d6172ef62eee SHA-256: cd1ca74d44a0c700163d62ab93b5133940f4d2d8776443b93b70edbba70931d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'Download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm suggest it's designed to facilitate the download or redirection to a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=mcgraw+hill+education+books+of+ctet PDF link annotation
    • http://islta.fun/zibokogosikigedibtqg4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tejikapor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382395/501959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500425/normal_5ff255f230298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bewepovuzif.iblogger.org/direct_current_and_alternating_current.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupadosizekibu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597568/wudexixaxinavazose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonizubiro.getenjoyment.net/saxulokidutilewufene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunozoxutokusu.mygamesonline.org/ridobuvijiwofekedixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebetesoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695457/c97e4190ba63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafale.store/how_to_get_access_code_for_pearson_books7i6v8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369163/normal_600b151529dbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santaparker.store/walukurubozoguburos614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manasuxejorodi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606962/5cae6bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favodokoleti.mypressonline.com/2_g_ml_to_lb_l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trafikcezaodebayisi.com/benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo_home_exercisesps0qw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500200/normal_6034e1fc871a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xukosususif.medianewsonline.com/jogoruwiluketoninal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403533/normal_6013b435c3a6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xekukagakodepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999272/ganudafuraz-wipevuno-zatakinofuviw.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
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://7054f9d6-44ea-4b6c-8535-0d04e7cb9957.filesusr.com/ugd/963b03_17ff874fcdac49dfb63305398cdb0c72.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://miganuvag.myartsonline.com/admiralty_chart_symbols.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24451074-f53b-4065-993c-779ba3957988.filesusr.com/ugd/0ae25f_f5fd732d2b9441df949284332a1941ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b32521b7-32ca-447e-9967-d27d0dce683d.filesusr.com/ugd/800b88_302ba00b602d47039a2f84db095bf8a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sogirexulurika.rf.gd/electrical_estimation_and_costing_nptel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f39f7cea-6337-46de-af4f-699959e6db0a.filesusr.com/ugd/004672_0a3eb9f153004a1cbaa445e6d66cb0bd.pdf?index=trueIn 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001063b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063B 5464 bytes
SHA-256: ae8f5d2e63781622be7e6bf336c02a8fdc92d544e84ecb3e800d9338771b9505
font_01_sfnt_off000118ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CA 2664 bytes
SHA-256: bb49d2c6b0062a2fd8e36b648f9581ab0b9818761833ff21810b8aa8be3e8a6f
font_02_sfnt_off0001241a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1241A 10764 bytes
SHA-256: e3dce138d6ef1fcd33524f5c7fbac02efede4ddc089b73a906e6e5e93046d32e
font_03_sfnt_off000148d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148D4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
font_04_sfnt_off000156d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156D6 12228 bytes
SHA-256: cfe403a8452600b0c59c2e5ef8a4442e363404fda57342192334bc1712f49599