Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8609b8341caddab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-05-25 01:45:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ae44a2577095ea97f6da6ac9e4516a90 SHA-1: 9647493c8792af753d96be89159eecdb53d5c647 SHA-256: f8609b8341caddabe3fe8d4515d2a943aae3b0ed7b094f79768da939e4bad6e3
134 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 external URIs, including one pointing to 'fokemale.ru', suggesting an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site or download a payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=iphone+x+ringtone+download+mp3+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://kagapefox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134846757/ad388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487416/normal_60240cbd7c320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443354/normal_60109ef68b6fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369486/normal_5fdd1c492ea7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pozalifutasor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325459/950eedf987a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449996/normal_6008181bba641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452217/normal_5feddfba512cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454808/normal_602649fae7635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452157/normal_5ffe00c5592ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465908/normal_5febe87284c1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutipofuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135310868/pobikilavika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383137/normal_604626e9d66da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tobivuzulukimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384599/satatefogawajife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465024/normal_5ff1f39f7ca18.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/novifamigot/72065016179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c26588eb-2521-45c1-a61e-8a1adbfc5f53/wekoxuwogisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxulikiwab/how_to_do_a_free_background_check_on_someone_you_are_dating.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3128eef9-0444-453c-851e-3a3a4c3ea3e7/puzokabufunumanavizafiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf23d211-5c44-4b26-a128-2dfd33f7612d/jewenegidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3dd1803f-3818-44d8-8e30-89738fb66a95/medilorugujomovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nitizobuv/navien_nr-240_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gagagakigibapo/day_of_the_dead_matching_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a563f24-b406-4ec5-9a97-ab299fed26b0/31228480739.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_off0000cd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD78 5936 bytes
SHA-256: 860bdd67dcea8708161640b04a9a41508ce3948516f4dfaa4decb5ee7dd7c900
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A5 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 8b91007110e93b0b643ba00d2d121e15d30cf2b1f259d5ee7fb422fe16885bc7