Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f15ee0d6feae8cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-05-11 17:38:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fc1a0f202a225ca59aeb844c49fb0c7a SHA-1: 488d0ad28fe9182368686afc1a89518a2b1cc6e4 SHA-256: f15ee0d6feae8cea2e2e609a5d47634fe255946d15bbbc6bb39aaed3422b6398
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one prominent URL pointing to a suspicious domain that appears to be a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Python cheat sheet pdf one page' and authoring tools, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://midufefew.ru/wb?keyword=python%20cheat%20sheet%20pdf%20one%20page PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370528/normal_605331c3e3d4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491965/normal_60181f72a52df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wivuperafuzo.mypressonline.com/tuck_everlasting_read_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rejasikega.scienceontheweb.net/46331478599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutiboju.sportsontheweb.net/wings_of_fire_book_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vosurozalivu.iblogger.org/arduino_nano_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whysmall.space/how_do_you_write_an_interview_in_apa_format_exampleifmu2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalidusiz.mywebcommunity.org/9792315877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonerokemub.getenjoyment.net/tasikifitimubupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midesamipazizuj.scienceontheweb.net/auguries_of_innocence_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twenty-promo2020.ru/beverly_hills_ninja_movieqjs67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387054/normal_60445b23a53b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruktovik.com/what_are_the_3_elements_of_human_traffickingpxy7z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfa-quest.ru/30124878278boe39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meetplafond.xyz/how_to_work_on_critical_thinking_skillskxxsk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fafijitesulexiz.mygamesonline.org/betty_edwards_drawing_on_the_right_side_of_the_brain_workbook.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
    • http://bapexuzajo.epizy.com/anatomy_directional_terms_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://figopovu.epizy.com/gemuninuwepudilomoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a7563df4-ba19-4d82-a8a0-b2470d957038.filesusr.com/ugd/61f964_cfa3a131dfe84253ad383c9f3fb42067.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f735f5a-cd1c-4288-bd93-adeff6e084d9.filesusr.com/ugd/bcc0e4_a6832cbb8d614806b8ba46e931c307bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gaxopuna.epizy.com/como_es_una_composicion_escrita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d09251a9-b09e-4077-8ccb-24037f005f7b.filesusr.com/ugd/a6ce17_3f90f1cd6f5a4555b7e9d29b8079d217.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb38ef3f-1f2c-4622-8962-dca261660167.filesusr.com/ugd/3ae201_362a543ddcb049c4891363e5899bb570.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE52 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 3a0654f9cbf4ffc241b7fadb5089c4b80ea5f2be0efc05d0487dfe088a5b6354
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC2 12136 bytes
SHA-256: beccccb91c7c935aaf6b723b713a3a780d4940acd44525fbd26f880a6eb18156
font_02_sfnt_off00013940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13940 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ad623bc7c681097dfa1224999cf6cc6072d3ca9a137655dc1129b0261f0b357c