Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ce3eddb0ddf862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-02-20 16:47:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: a5fc79666b77d4081c899e9cf07ee8e3 SHA-1: ef25de6ee21559b9eea4de66597f4f15aa2fa348 SHA-256: d8ce3eddb0ddf862b6d4296bb708c55e281edbb3c225a18984ca4998f76eb224
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm with invisible links pointing to suspicious domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external links to potentially malicious domains strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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://maypoin.ru/aws?utm_term=cobra+29ltd+classic+mic PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369643/normal_602753bfec2b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nebinefis/hd0mii4/love_stories_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tononapiwaso/jigciiG/25240221984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitit.space/288086525077aacr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373999/normal_6027fadb13503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4499972/normal_60065c8d59544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380383/normal_602dae20b6abc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musc-media.xyz/vex_on_tangled_shore3nygz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476930/normal_5ff7579fea6da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392453/normal_5fca59faa8df3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480173/normal_5ff9c8ccc76d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itravelimpressions.com/samsung_s10_5g_wallpaper7orad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wejawujagi/bQz7tTc/molaganizakekikilanuverek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366325/normal_6027cd2e2dd61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-supportcenter.xyz/29108918233p6yn3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leomannapov.com/pekaziwekileruwopdc0.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://s3.amazonaws.com/jasipefulaxiduj/how_to_cancel_rosetta_stone_subscription.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wupuxus/silopibasatezegifakegife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rizoli/chemistry_122_worksheet_chemical_equilibrium_review.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_off0000d4fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4FA 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6ff1f175b35048f41e9bf8cda3842fefc5ff1258488f66220c21aafa15f71d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE646 11472 bytes
SHA-256: 34525a0aa088c27d9c8f3b0226304e57fb4c8888fc1e7435839578c91a53d561
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378