Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e165602579ea8e45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-03-19 09:28:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: efd88e95166bdb529cd271e6cda64605 SHA-1: d85e960468480572d34947c9cb2b43f1b9f1bcbf SHA-256: e165602579ea8e45a8796b1341167c385a314b9c3e84eb0b8d209a469e1d53c8
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'accounting principles and standards' and mentions urgency, aligning with common phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=accounting+principles+and+standards+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tijotado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382447/kolasanusu-dazebevonano-pezode-wapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubolats.xyz/27120711636d5xiq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devicesprotectionforusers.site/912369662746kijm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aycotoro6.xyz/how_many_books_will_there_be_in_the_shatter_me_seriesmc4kd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xasurila/8gfiajc/xovavafodilizopumigigafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virenejamavik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131854/kuxizafuxedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dujagazatad/Aiicfp2/54005486873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tajixuxax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134751877/kunawolubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/namulofilox/r3jdggg/jixajafovesigamukukusujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordsideget.top/chicken_noodle_soup_books_for_the_teenage_soul_online4d1mc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allostar.buzz/17123760671nt1we.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autolombardpro.ru/mebogunenilepuraxet2em7l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoterritory.store/dividing_fractions_worksheet_6th_grade098x0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpupnov.pro/time_warner_cable_dta_remote_programming6n85w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usacreditreport.info/ninesogovu5xgdk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebomavarel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883959/fijitijeketitaxoxifu.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/welanisowari/27450272829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/begijufadi/paypal_account_hacked_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xokebore/92732312379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/devuxuzejozam/wagavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mejobu/jewonezapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tigovatolis/adding_and_subtracting_like_fractions_free_worksheets.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95C 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 713bb1f80542c7ed4b9d5c651484736d070cbd1c87c98dfedb3c2e0751a13142
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB09 11056 bytes
SHA-256: ec581dd2b058b936d3f0facfbfcd22a34d80da5572cbdebab7db6b574b143eed
font_02_sfnt_off000120ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FF 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 35d3440dae1ebc896564e4e6f70ea95aa3a30a1ac603c7fffbb21b68b8b72e2f
font_03_sfnt_off00013569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13569 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34