Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6d57a1d1e85433b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-03-20 03:58:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: aab200c2a8f1b7e9956342b6e8353d4d SHA-1: 21a617cc217708fab997ead36f885e4fe391fe81 SHA-256: d6d57a1d1e85433b4312c981fa553813553cc609103e0aa837a0aea259563de5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious, likely a phishing attempt disguised as a free exam guide. It contains a mass of external links, many pointing to SEO redirectors, designed to trick users into downloading further content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, and the presence of embedded URLs suggests it's part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://gimoguvi.ru/123?utm_term=comptia+a+exam+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471235/normal_5fc79adc4bcc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490528/normal_5fe5a56e4e09d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494648/normal_5fc5b48f85580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denuxikunoleluj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018299/7f95e9a3fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4390684/normal_5ffae7b79ead2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilukosezaxed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814529/gimoduwomar_sazexamez_xatafamowipuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381971/normal_60375ad71ce5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://11ca5eb4-0abe-4d5d-8073-3f36f6088e80.filesusr.com/ugd/8b62d8_8ed7edd0d5ed4e29bd03ee93f213db74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kuturonelavopif.rf.gd/38015059360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f3dbd103-cf2f-44fc-b0ad-c9004dc38af2.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2646_e4922135eb55480e8bb265a10464fa69.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4470acb7-f429-4d3c-83f3-bd2c948afd5d/51977568076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://54570836-76ea-4100-b78f-d1ba4c3cc0d1.filesusr.com/ugd/21ac59_9f1781885c934c58afca3f98a0cbcfd6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed0f7819-48b4-4c0d-9119-93de03d81b9c.filesusr.com/ugd/e481ce_94f4d5cd420342b69901115f9defe8b8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xidixisugatifes.epizy.com/entrepreneurship_development_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1eba3b37-3dce-45e8-aa15-e51a58efc0fe.filesusr.com/ugd/89e37c_fe9678195936465fa5518c95ae621e90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://setonan.rf.gd/cavatine_trombone_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/537a14e2-188f-47ae-99e5-1e90027a0854/46171660793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4253c66a-660d-4c83-b31d-f715833d547b.filesusr.com/ugd/d9e9a0_031eb3093c74406f8110b3c469ac613b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f4b9ed98-44c1-44e6-9966-d9817cd43de7.filesusr.com/ugd/9ced5d_779c4402c78b4d56985a3c6d45287a63.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35e1cc1d-5f6c-4a41-9b1b-b9ae8dddc97a.filesusr.com/ugd/351eee_86d7d8edf8f942b3970bb6f07ec0b69d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cbb9655c-b60d-4095-8c1c-bb5f9a2903c5.filesusr.com/ugd/4dd980_d1aca93d80e149b6b693b9ffc4204eee.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_off0000f909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF909 4944 bytes
SHA-256: 0cd367a681aab4525c22d4609f1b2b41125a92baf5ac4cfaa7416844df35c694
font_01_sfnt_off000109cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CC 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 12688dac32a5cc9d665d3e8d5c25f568872fee82eecccabc1588e99f8fc92a40