Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddc08fd32a23d3a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

173.9 KB Created: 2021-04-28 05:03:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fa495400e19a6965878b05eb10e166cc SHA-1: ebb524d48d1ddd2cbf9cdbcb70c528f35b42ad61 SHA-256: ddc08fd32a23d3a49a1c14547bda4ebf65f120e821b5df17208892df1c00ffb3
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including external URI links and a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is a malicious PDF, likely used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of urgency and download button lures in the document body further supports this, although the body content itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=october+2017+sat+practice+test
    • http://mudikovarew.mygamesonline.org/38255889645.pdf
    • http://zumanidoxup.medianewsonline.com/sawagefotozujive.pdf
    • https://joxunirefebemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319414/dajikoxibo-xomaduvaz-putolop.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jelasusoved/iihghaj/bajabideworasigarej.pdf
    • https://jelakuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856802/2753654.pdf
    • http://kurametugugu.mygamesonline.org/sarotivisukelinugin.pdf
    • https://vubosetupis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134594606/6656833.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawinojos/ibIyheJ/61173597983.pdf
    • https://wutuzorul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135963099/b4e1127390f9021.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/senuziker/jeVpMuA/wasuru.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/filomada/VbuO0DA/women_s_hockey_all_time_stats.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://womajobepovig.epizy.com/representacion_de_planos_arquitectonicos.pdf
    • http://namakanexir.atwebpages.com/19590930615.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rurosaveruk/elementary_geometry_for_college_students_7th_edition_amazon.pdf
    • http://pewubik.atwebpages.com/nitro_to_word_converter_software_free_download.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fedufiporara/bissell_powerforce_bagged_canister_vacuum_cleaner_bags.pdf
    • http://pejonoma.epizy.com/lojevaniruwen.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lezerawe/zukirawuladerepisi.pdf
    • http://vokifanebol.rf.gd/blacksmith_forge_plans.pdf
    • http://tukudapig.epizy.com/10320134917.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/domegagowevag/best_racing_game_online_android.pdf
    • http://lafafodewasu.rf.gd/95467206300.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xujitezu/macos_10._15_dmg.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f47a.bin
35c46eb4c116ffcdd3a73ef491e28d7a3ff2a12c0204d429d4e737b1f3bda3a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47A 6600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104d6.bin
e2839197588350940c1949c976bafb17764cce852b5af1b0d8cff164c146cdb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D6 110648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00024e02.bin
53e646ef07d5f285e425a291ddb6d15dd02551febb0c73743cba709d8a5f3153
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24E02 5468 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000260a3.bin
1151ff8b7adddd57e82b26bfb084a6f4f57b3ac297276139eeb2f3b71c724c70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x260A3 2476 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00026b7a.bin
6fa5e72cba2a27284f0cfdbfd3bff095187628a46c3c652c6acea38b66c4abc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26B7A 11488 bytes
font_05_sfnt_off000292d1.bin
62bb3fc12cc10548bbf258a68fa64141c1b8ac9713047286df72d6176cd95b06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x292D1 16292 bytes