Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d44225872f024d66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-04-04 21:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a45e520dd96837f9a1e3e49cad354b82 SHA-1: 553ff9dbdf91a285c7227f9f36ff664ceaa02d3d SHA-256: d44225872f024d663f29d7d230b340e79390e87eb0bbaf2998761e69c5f2d29d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded URI pointing to a suspicious domain, 'baarspo.ru', which is likely used to host a phishing page or distribute further malware. The PDF structure and embedded content suggest an attempt to deceive the user into visiting this external resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=agenda+escolar+2020+a+2020+preescolar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385848/normal_5fdf7213e6697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447097/normal_6063ab85693b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://butalinonoruma.scienceontheweb.net/cell_cycle_cdks_and_cancer_a_changing_paradigm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorabawik.medianewsonline.com/cardigan_sewing_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486963/normal_6038d5b550518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sponsor.rest/jump_zombie_chapter_250mz49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496372/normal_605066f172226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473375/normal_60264ed416df8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454558/normal_60302448d328d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391001/normal_603531e2718c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeshnoykir.space/witezufavasixadesab0e3mu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415962/normal_60125e00b9983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokfresh.fun/zamikizojugezazobadexofadrw4l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernig.online/punctuation_worksheets_9th_gradem9p45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepatokada.mypressonline.com/tales_from_the_loop_art_book.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/776f905c-5ad1-4a22-a165-3fff3f4b41cf/what_my_car_is_worth_in_blue_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b2dd0268-c09e-477b-81ea-c16b5d686edc/what_is_meaning_of_islam_in_urdu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a48c7f5-a404-4911-9dfb-f3f9221904df/where_is_the_ir_sensor_on_samsung_smart_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9efc0c4-e169-40ce-8570-bec887d63f41/bofupevogaxezeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06bb8645-0246-4f42-a429-33f37f69fa1f/how_do_i_become_a_certified_icf_coach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kogotiru.myartsonline.com/59768681501.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD58 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 96ca83e08c4834b4b74b0fd36d7d2a95148636e16e6e9f77cc2dd5276acb9be7
font_01_sfnt_off0000df2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2C 11268 bytes
SHA-256: e8090d250db77d9cbd59ade1c2c80c7eb1a8b94222824cbac134c340b1767ae6
font_02_sfnt_off000103ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3