Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d56ac115c1160931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-01-18 02:34:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 00709a78b419103ecb1d4d7a437e790b SHA-1: 0e61c50f82ccb8691fedfba4cce08974c0792a2e SHA-256: d56ac115c1160931a683a411745b4e1fa3b883c0373241d0cc8939ebc3936b73
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to financial reconciliation, suggesting a lure for phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=balance+sheet+reconciliation+excel In PDF document text
    • https://saxunada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865385/2844517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fozuwasixeja/cudicIY/apowersoft_online_screen_recorder_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464851/normal_5fd183bec8786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1231318.mozfiles.com/files/1231318/toys_toon_blast_crush_puzzles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxijaxazixi/jYlhhib/dark_forest_wallpaper_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1202186.mozfiles.com/files/1202186/leaflet_template_word_ks1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1171722.mozfiles.com/files/1171722/football_manager_2020_covid_19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1192291.mozfiles.com/files/1192291/67427871944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nopawuwam/jcnQgf2/muguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1166675.mozfiles.com/files/1166675/73686477558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1250600.mozfiles.com/files/1250600/wupawupakukizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1178275.mozfiles.com/files/1178275/heating_curve_calorimetry_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kelobutino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969458/bc903b28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/javeduner/giUijgh/xupekaviwozodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wifopuzuxiba/ehbhjia/10492583516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1217406.mozfiles.com/files/1217406/viwugopejanajugimijogeguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jevusavisa.epizy.com/ibps_guide_lic_assistant_free_mock_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rupadulogoliwid.epizy.com/roraxokibure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folijurojavagig.epizy.com/cherry_orchard_primary_school_charlton_ofsted_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zasegusof.epizy.com/80251351832.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_off0000d719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD719 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 124e1356dd0a453de40cfbd4963f4fbc03d3c5a0a695a40a435aee571f2e54ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE815 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 943eebc46ddbb9981e91475fdb895fb45d53248c5a1e3b9edfaafc6475fd1de3