Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ecf46fb3932690…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-04-01 15:13:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: 0acb4137aa6cef0d0efb4386847269e3 SHA-1: 57766291b4ab33e205bc57fc0f7dfab7611fb9c6 SHA-256: d2ecf46fb393269081692d650c21bce210cdc4756c3b93754fe4e659a617b874
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URLs and the heuristic firings for link farms and malicious PDFs point towards a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://dugedepap.ru/award?keyword=ntn+bearing+nomenclature+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nebo-baikala.ru/39383811166ami4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthytrands.com/free_browser_vpn_for_macayjih.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/928dd9f2-3f47-47b5-99c0-54eb55b9329c/the_singing_machine_mobile_karaoke_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eca4aa1c-f6b7-48c1-9efb-7ba93f81aeb8/fizivekipobose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a94763b7-d6fa-4b1b-ac84-021f776d1967/soil_mechanics_in_engineering_practice_by_karl_terzaghi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/senodiw/yoga_mudras_and_meanings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cde3e198-74ee-4f6c-af23-5310d219cced/why_do_i_have_a_gold_star_on_my_license.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e78678f7-ff4d-404a-aa22-a13bdcfb06e4/book_report_format_grade_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cda84be5-0c54-4c05-8389-97bb004c798d.filesusr.com/ugd/fa9f00_6001624b087b49b0bbc4545cad083256.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nodetuxapabara/najuvowagufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8fb7a72e-8f02-4f1c-a935-e5e75207eea9/asus_x205ta_windows_10_update.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72d39db4-2adb-435f-b328-99051339c4e7/canon_650d_firmware_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a785f01-e3f3-4cc8-a310-2b977d3d1e73/java_interview_questions_and_answers_for_experienced_5_years.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/norozovijalu/pasilisasefesalanomaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bbc2f25b-a1b7-40ae-bfcf-f027df6d0110/delta_table_saw_for_sale_craigslist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e40fc456-00af-4fb8-ac64-7c84ca29eb26/kavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://48936d5e-4b15-4059-a328-ddb12afcc15e.filesusr.com/ugd/173145_595a87fe25b14fb881071802125ebdba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eba18d25-77bd-41cc-be6d-2b2bfa879c8d/tenemozotedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9be57bea-bd38-4f62-9412-1036d4039ca7/vizodedewezipivejofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://77da94c0-0f0a-445b-87af-e489a0b5ef66.filesusr.com/ugd/db1da1_019eb0d95f8f4d19846927c796dee149.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2f8a6ab9-e864-4757-b083-6627a13f4c48.filesusr.com/ugd/405339_1ad4fee202c74959868e9ce599d34d84.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D5 5408 bytes
SHA-256: baa40f52b338db22e0b8b712cac3756984c8c134cfd4f2a7174951764f769622
font_01_sfnt_off0001062d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062D 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 755d8047fc6df5f8c5a937720af8633e493e13afc6cef86dffffb124d92f1e0f