Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4c834a71fec094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-03-27 21:49:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 7ab1265b5e6acbed67821ea7b16bb002 SHA-1: 5c960b7a49a48acfce4bc9050c115922db13b74f SHA-256: fa4c834a71fec094d5817170c62748260043e500917f8fbf82d46326b6e5b9e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malicious content lure, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf and includes a URL that appears to be a search query for educational material. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, strongly suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful websites. The ClamAV detection further solidifies its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://seumenha.ru/wix?keyword=genki+textbook+pdf+google+drive PDF link annotation
    • http://vijexibat.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_see_cracked_passwords_john_the_ripper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://migriruy.ru/shoprider_scooter_battery_chargerysjjd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokfresh.fun/3d_analyzer_software_freeu8mvj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buxarurusej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856129/9330372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabavorurexezab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314693/3590581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tifusavegapawuf.mygamesonline.org/prairie_bonnet_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakozek.mypressonline.com/english_speaking_course_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://a2876ee3-c470-454a-91e2-e108d831033a.filesusr.com/ugd/e8dba5_4ed31ad235fb41f48e7cf750f6e3cafc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d26259c5-daa8-43e2-88d9-0562a6011c82/8652770705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3e3188f7-d9e9-48da-9af6-4e6760718ee0.filesusr.com/ugd/4f7562_9532dfc924b24129b4e005aaaa827a2e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gedimuta/3184215709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwedozesa.atwebpages.com/git_commands_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bexukavibume.myartsonline.com/business_case_studies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/defujo/19867741397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/760dc01e-3bb2-4b01-a6c4-c1b175eec008/blueparrott_b250-xts_battery_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9c50f6df-e9c1-453e-a208-eff1cefe231f.filesusr.com/ugd/44b3dc_e91827e01dfd481381bdefc086478ffe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1618b3f4-dcc0-4047-a816-eeb1cbe43c51.filesusr.com/ugd/a01749_36ae8f532034477aac29651f9e8d2566.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d93bd12a-5b80-4d2c-8a0a-43101c8c413f/vamajagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2a4d336-0dbf-45ba-b8b4-4f5a9c1ec0dc/67548320474.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_off0000f895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF895 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 7ae88a6ca597c2607fd4befe0f920513602223937c363bcd1dfdc5ec9b2d240b
font_01_sfnt_off00010a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A55 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 8a9af01d736b0441d82d44e293950e8fdca8240719bb64de2361c4c15654d97b