Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3c58e0071fc2eca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-05-29 06:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99abbb355191c13ae39e1600402f3961 SHA-1: 869129cd64b052e4316788b1a4e3d6efeb811d4f SHA-256: f3c58e0071fc2eca7914a6529d39a37374c1e704e9ec421dff3e7f993272c553
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links, including one to 'soxebez.ru', suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Hogwarts acceptance letter templates', aligning with phishing or scam tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://soxebez.ru/123?utm_term=hogwarts+acceptance+letter+templates PDF link annotation
    • https://wijugola.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303023/5766241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujovuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738596/katijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369651/normal_601b0dea73596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warubeduzubam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135298611/fb5b3719b194f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460723/normal_605921ff4118f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojotipawotos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681617/sineritejaragi_kitijore_xejewexo_bosokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366989/normal_605036b4a912e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407313/normal_5ff593ec25496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zunezazawegor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665047/6776897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417118/normal_5fef96a4da7af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://javedaxefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314095/gopavizavur.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/dec5e06b-ce3e-4e8b-9dc9-b71417f9905b/la_seora_fazilet_y_sus_hijas_capitulo_54completo_en_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5168ecdc-432f-4eff-a792-26dedbc1dd5b/jekufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bbca58b9-cbf3-46c6-a606-5818a99669d3/o_lord_our_god_how_majestic_is_your_name_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e58ce553-2641-4206-90d8-0333e6800aae/98838686662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0e7f3eb-1ae2-419a-aa07-e80cb350cc21/19501565737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73769247-1f19-4f3c-8627-c3459f90f52c/zoom_h4n_manual_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9200b97b-d382-4040-a3d8-6cc4ac48007f/36089538147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f1f5f08-3430-4a37-ab23-d198aea52e67/cvs_generic_test_strips_for_onetouch_ultra_2.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_off0000efef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEF 5304 bytes
SHA-256: f80063766a7bc0436af3789a18d5119a4cbf9b1adbe81b8dac684d85485ec854
font_01_sfnt_off000101fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FC 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 80cf2313e8d1a7e4565f2be3737d11e1ca2001533ad98994a8ee5a8a0af069fc