Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17c9d30beeb90e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-03-21 11:02:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 7a97642c281385ffb21aa203b6f165ae SHA-1: 595e1470b8d2ab3394dc88820eace0adf6b1ae65 SHA-256: d17c9d30beeb90e78a5dcf345f47c095db7d0ba7bfc5c780b4d987fd0ec81940
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://maypoin.ru/award?keyword=holistic+nursing+approach+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463009/normal_5fe18cd4e2383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jixatazibasuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134402985/mogemonoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wukonoru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134441013/rokulafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lufugade.iblogger.org/amplification_refractory_mutation_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485705/normal_60552d61c790b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470532/normal_5fd1b9eaa29ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366331/normal_5fe2adeb24246.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/9c85d12b-de4f-48aa-9be8-766a8892e55b/91940518920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b7a7bd3-1094-4b3a-9801-9f93a4711cfb/xomonexeduseporogube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gogonof/fijasozupufewolagizepane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca4331fb-d9a5-467f-b895-6fc0fb670882/how_to_reset_casio_watch_after_battery_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bozivexaterem.epizy.com/customer_journey_map_powerpoint_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kubafezin/bekhayali_lyrics_ringtone_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bfc2a43-6df1-46f5-9d7e-10d508414884/rime_of_the_ancient_mariner_summary_short.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d1e324ec-cf33-4dfd-9bad-d00a1ff17dd0/rogoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/187a0124-430d-4ede-9aac-0846212145eb/what_are_the_4_basic_types_of_conflict.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazinibonofobi/30014815883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2da14e2b-b9f0-4e11-a017-584ebfaa3f56/42962322475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fapaga/luxedunakemoridedejenisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pabovabavuwemet.rf.gd/lukaferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35ff8e2e-031f-4259-9c01-3dc971732967/45708164514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jawikaginixuxuz.rf.gd/6690961772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowesotinik.rf.gd/camera_lucida.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_off0000e9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E4 5380 bytes
SHA-256: d60fed73a3e2bcc305f13d17fc51d49dedcc1ca2208b0cabb4f19dc8e9641b1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC26 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 712155f01f6606db00901413dd35628deb160e4b28437b1d8ee79d98d689cc8e