Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e08824deb47a9f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-03-05 12:54:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 1f8b279907aa1cd38af1056e8c0f0c61 SHA-1: 10664325a4bb74610194595a3803e23f0bbb8525 SHA-256: e08824deb47a9f37b22e512017685629b2ccf7cb945ddd6ccc021f2952b5f835
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a heuristic firing for a browser extension/update installation lure, indicating a social engineering tactic. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URLs pointing to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site or prompt a harmful download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=cls+requirements+army PDF link annotation
    • https://gumevimarijefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071167/6764657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nozatagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986497/68831a25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463263/normal_603a6d687c117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagukewedofitaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507185/jofikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489257/normal_6040ddeb0e646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a428fdcf-bfcb-4f69-b818-ce865b5469a5/69609138972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://da89e6ec-52f9-4c28-8de8-447a2e923c0c.filesusr.com/ugd/5e5b2a_a865c4b359fd4ec7b3739d30815b435f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e4dfdf4-c8c2-43d7-b96b-3e25c116c755/how_to_put_a_bowflex_together.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://091a8774-b5bd-4fb7-8799-8d1ca0ca44ad.filesusr.com/ugd/8716ab_75f18abc3b8647ad96b7938ef3a71027.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7cc8f27d-d1e6-4d6e-b30e-8c6fe21342b6/best_universities_to_study_ethical_hacking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cf2acc4-d143-4013-a78d-f21de0873c4f.filesusr.com/ugd/e4636f_a5cdcb8611494849a22d966a637f5844.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://034618a9-9b39-4f41-ad18-95bca1d1c80b.filesusr.com/ugd/48d9a1_452ecf925cb24e1298c753d5fed1043d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/142f83da-0eb1-46eb-a71c-80f17579d9e8/hp_elite_8300_small_form_factor_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e3a3fc2d-6477-48da-bee9-97946f8a22a5/24_hours_a_day_aa_january_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6ecad79-7981-44bd-aefb-c2746ae4c6a7/29217846210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/939b73a6-05c1-466a-a09a-3168e033c658/susopatiwipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2400e5e9-7c0d-4495-9841-26d193121002/ea_sports_ufc_3_light_heavyweight_roster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6c8027e1-9878-41b3-a9ef-32ba2b6bcd02.filesusr.com/ugd/185811_88bc38a4c3cd4713817960a8bd1e1cb4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c56500f9-2dac-4a93-8589-befabce830ee/madifezefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24e86517-2fc6-454c-a353-36dc471f7324/what_time_is_the_jupiter_saturn_conjunction_in_colorado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/790a6cf6-00de-466c-b65f-5e28270522b8/xivisemiluv.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_off0000fe0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0E 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 80cdb79afd298359e4c4a9619a9cb9e6b57e96d5cced32f305dc765303f14117
font_01_sfnt_off00010edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDB 12276 bytes
SHA-256: 7d016bf9507cfdd38b3917fbd7c362aafc903b79df1002f5da7fe5a7cc8cd86d