Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce55fa9254606fc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-05-18 11:28:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1c6bb43c6f9420110d1372bee941791c SHA-1: e23bb020c3798aaaf3051325c11f7c8e80f4c338 SHA-256: ce55fa9254606fc371a5c10f43cf9c35e13281af2c9f2dc6dbadad5922e5cc81
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, containing numerous external links to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulative websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to external content, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=capitulo+4a+actividad+5+audio+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://gigalenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134652901/5513660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolurubeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134350371/23d024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fifilukativoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509223/8563349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481162/normal_603ed49779c01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juxibawazorar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997202/198491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisotupojez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493444/zezigasovik-jamon-fazaposozazuli-xazutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luzomatuv.iblogger.org/zovanafosudaxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunizunifegitof.66ghz.com/aptoide_vs_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viputixezererej.66ghz.com/swim_pro_voyager_lock_ring.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labiluwewinedu.22web.org/bengali_to_assamese_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500430/normal_6027e0af59e91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458621/normal_6042d16fc96e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bexituxupogetav.rf.gd/valajixizawumuwulogimajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xalexojaxipud/31533746405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gunubaxerilol.epizy.com/facebook_page_statistics_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27661851-491e-4392-9797-a99af2f6b847/jifefiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fidobakipivogit/xoforokugalelinufafowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rukujabaxelab.epizy.com/lima_barreto_os_bruzundangas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukofitezude.rf.gd/whatsapp_new_version_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50a7ed49-73d9-47d0-b310-4d7bd78cbf69/zejidujezotitatorakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/divexikav/wondershare_mirrorgo_premium_apk.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_off00013feb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEB 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 8b38e6f1f5883912124ce00ef89d81e8375a64ff605e2da59c0288907017c667
font_01_sfnt_off00015238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15238 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 48917dae2d786fd4601fd0de336bdc3b3b3f3e7f8fe236bc4710ee315077cd0a