Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3a82ea4a082cb8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-01-22 10:07:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 02d442c27e5c5140f4f8c870abfec4f6 SHA-1: 924d85c11427055444b6e8eb2319fb8b866d4429 SHA-256: f3a82ea4a082cb8e2331503ed167b777766602609bb69d40319e45a215a6cb56
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to suspicious or unknown domains, and one specifically to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's content, though obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an 'Army problem statement'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?utm_term=army+problem+statement In PDF document text
    • https://vivuguduwidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681484/24f334ff7abdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forugizatufuru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410167/nosoterusobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bemisawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134716701/wulesimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozutawupev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695629/9327060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448096/normal_60061e2b0fb26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulaxevaximuji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776814/557e702a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menedufigejit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482930/7406331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xalitizamer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134863297/lomatewoxupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewigilimeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408849/05fb2980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jilarikogezinuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969280/56ea0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fopezifu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134717551/9073585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegiritofizupog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134644009/nobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mupasifuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680827/biseledogokel.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/petikamov/1st_birthday_sheet_cake_ideas_girl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mukokulag.epizy.com/pevoxiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabemekos.epizy.com/gamma_waves_binaural_beats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fajujiju/55238125759.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_off00010e9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9B 5196 bytes
SHA-256: dd42b4319a28c8bd407160450fcf08c837ff9bd1758629a346edbe9292686a2b
font_01_sfnt_off00012030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12030 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2692708a4618fc54ceb023f633848879fb268d649f1f628f67b91724af6547