Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dff081c283d2951f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-04-07 10:36:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c9202d2ebd7d5b87dfa9cced96c23f42 SHA-1: bcd5511f5965544659cad1eccb9834d2a612c24f SHA-256: dff081c283d2951fb6001b81715e84090a016fcbd846bf02ab4f94a99145acd2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily garbled, appears to reference 'Netbeans ide php tutorial pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise malicious links. The presence of multiple external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a strong likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=netbeans+ide+php+tutorial+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450513/normal_601f579b692de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446382/normal_6001f1822c442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464522/normal_60379146c83f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394077/normal_6010287af083b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419441/normal_605a7802d3138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447906/normal_6008e295889fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494431/normal_606b32fa62f64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387230/normal_601d5c8535fff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500889/normal_602f68453146b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387817/normal_6025ab00dafc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373753/normal_5fee851d39c6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489596/normal_60545f4d24e74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407057/normal_5fec407552bb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4469847/normal_5fde0fb1cc870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/napisakaluja/dufokaxobapezugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanaladu/2284731319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/timeziso/collapsible_door.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7a579b3f-ce96-4c66-abdc-991530493d29.filesusr.com/ugd/010c6b_5a670d755a7a44009eaf398f5b99b8e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4b67404f-136a-46a0-9cf3-151f2d38faab.filesusr.com/ugd/241fd5_26c043a141b944698f5ec82cccfbb0a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f7b0ef4b-317e-4f07-901b-4de91a029b50.filesusr.com/ugd/50f142_bbf979bf108f4e04ba141101d3ebdc11.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3485775d-af35-4505-8fb4-f6750f575e04.filesusr.com/ugd/42f18e_5efdf2938496436d9f18b4be32c40c15.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b1f0a730-f0e4-4bcf-918d-a915077b90d0.filesusr.com/ugd/a7c69d_112978331d8543e9bf296664ec25d78b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7f993087-45f6-41f4-96e5-9dcaca18fb91.filesusr.com/ugd/9a92dd_0164786ab083401eb430af0d395a480b.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_off000112a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A0 5236 bytes
SHA-256: b2702a4b2d6a9f217e4abfaeeabd034567b3102f6b2d56826fc7bbe13d591ba5
font_01_sfnt_off00012468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12468 12716 bytes
SHA-256: 9bab384c92d7a18808289db0cb61e2c94582d6a45974a8627026a7d941feb97e