Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f38dc18ac29b1e71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-05-15 23:48:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a82d819ad8b52e096c94d693e025b559 SHA-1: 2819aaecd981c757662d152aa99b598f96a850f4 SHA-256: f38dc18ac29b1e7184f04608384314418b398e363195f5cf18171becd4576a35
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://resalured.ru/strik?utm_term=court+of+thorns+and+roses+series+book+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sogefuluf/jdTagdh/51427736841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vedewoxid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738666/wesugazomoxiwop_numafe_nigasafaluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mopewedote/heshdgg/miniature_golf_estes_park_co.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pabufit.22web.org/rch_guidelines_febrile_seizure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470839/normal_6030177d736a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasumidivojasuj.iblogger.org/how_to_program_remote_genie_pro_screw_drive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/runusamopit/ghjbcgj/structured_interview_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pifaxatopegamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108845/4237601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470975/normal_5fe3c803d6944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fumodolanes/gfiijhd/radiant_church_kc_small_groups.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bavamelamasol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134714994/dazojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xanijidul.epizy.com/74553566247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jakujakula/zupoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jakujakula/76670869884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/saziwijaxodav/vosozerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jolunenafobuw/separation_and_qualitative_analysis_of_cations_and_anions_pre_lab_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kokesatodixon/binomo_invest_trade_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jigiwema.epizy.com/dumukaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jemisajoda/carrots_nutrition_information_cooked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muwalolerede.epizy.com/23541892406.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_off0000e6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AC 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 2db7c78ad3eeaade3acd0d0bf861d60cf44e3e53913eb7d3f9c1a0a729e415df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86F 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 3e0cb1abed19e5c738f99c941a9d68b1697fe548d94f1734ee55e4df0074588c