Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1ad70179c274657…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-03-23 17:17:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 856f23132d8bc39c2c79e81c9f72a2da SHA-1: 4688ab3db2edb68b3b5f78426cbb68d38c02ee94 SHA-256: d1ad70179c2746573d90820eeab4e211f7b683362a378f5a84f47d512c5b2799
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference a user guide, which is a common lure for phishing attacks. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the malware detection strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=avaya+aura+messaging+aria+user+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kukelagalefe/e6jg42g/for_freedoms_50_state_initiative.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/madagijoj/eidrIii/poker_hands_learn_poker_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuvalasit.mypressonline.com/gilipeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lisupixiwe/gigjs1p/wibogisemodewumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waranijovuv.sportsontheweb.net/65580081789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kufalavoxig/18YLHdG/51346630708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xogovofofi/gcAgdib/save_our_earth_vans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mogezunir/cPVjejf/top_viral_videos_this_week_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rijigikesezaga.mypressonline.com/pigidulajexenavilejutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vatukaso/qUAygcP/modern_house_map_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixutadumekaje.mypressonline.com/solidworks_assembly_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/naxudufejik/hQAXjid/kairobotica_special_kairobot.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/7baf6491-4e27-4dc4-9e85-cbed64824668/how_to_reset_a_galaxy_tablet_to_factory_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojozore.myartsonline.com/dubulonejewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwatimab.atwebpages.com/29344510891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levapoloj.onlinewebshop.net/pdf_to_word_converter_free_download_i_love.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lunojol/76546537501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madigekole.onlinewebshop.net/occupational_safety_and_health_act_1970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxewiwupir/23565439991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vukusa/cash_flow_budget_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea8269f5-6d41-4544-8710-2ed5ce5a1cc2/moxowenozidizamiloruwibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ceeeed20-38ef-424e-8342-927bf58ca05d/tp-link_tl-wr841n_price_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/186f55d8-b045-4d54-aa6a-284fe54b961d/22854766525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dakebesuvum/45584247050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b9487ba5-8763-4d87-b654-3e8c08ab598f/moodle_ebi_fernando_casimiro.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_off0000da49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA49 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 541dc95658bf322b5533c66f6e86c63ad96af8dfdd54483216311df0f03b0bb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2B 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 082d475ef9899d7bd4ee96b99867a702d59fa4cc776851023718611d1c4bf49e