Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78c455960090e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-06-04 04:04:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 7f4136df33736bbf397a9253d4d4f998 SHA-1: 8a85ce3b6a3176585b5a82beadabcf994ecb69f2 SHA-256: f78c455960090e6fdfd53a3c91782c553fe029590efc3eea17ea810aaaba4eaf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious workflow, likely aimed at tricking users into visiting malicious sites or downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/pbw?utm_term=tum+se+achcha+kaun+hai+movie+mp3+songs+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372105/normal_602bb109384fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374207/normal_6055be222d0d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392209/normal_6059221deab8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500187/normal_601f14368dfaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369508/normal_5fcfebe1cf507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebopudej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135298692/nipinusuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4506131/normal_6023ab4c41e75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366343/normal_600ac81f4ba01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tazivori.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438523/wafumokufuwotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://runonidalebemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682230/5739615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468837/normal_60b950d879fcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485322/normal_5ff97c84044fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fadefewili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316521/8671517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vedufid.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144579531/35115041266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liguduper.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144576384/how_to_get_gems_in_pixel_petz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafunanukexe.pbworks.com/f/24685654664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tusoxefum.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144586350/how_to_write_anything_4th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugewenuzed.pbworks.com/f/88760676724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mogulazedub.pbworks.com/f/intro_to_probability_and_statistics_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jijagenaneke.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144450510/55331064605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafunanukexe.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144522957/lixebutigafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipoziw.pbworks.com/f/24212752353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zegugas.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144427839/how_to_prepare_for_interview_job.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_off0000e216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE216 5896 bytes
SHA-256: a34f477eaae34e525f889bebe35c12c13f9484ccf908a7e5548d89470189a2a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF616 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc03b8cef41d91e2214d236dc63028293cabfc7fd148d3d82346e0cfd97b2b1