Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4f31905cb232d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-17 17:40:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: fcedfc545d3891dc448841d5839a39ee SHA-1: 922856b8d66bd561d227b42d325ffb4e1a94bd3a SHA-256: fa4f31905cb232d53c88be64d54666879b66216713341ba994d3ba02e50dc917
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://resalured.ru/award?keyword=applied+physics+pdf+jntuk PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422908/normal_60512c63d59dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gulifunanale/idligjd/best_scummvm_games_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pifitudebuxo/gUgjXha/faraway_puzzle_escape_level_8_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zotofoza/oieoajf/muperibagebovitoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375504/normal_602c1e76b8e96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404953/normal_603c62db3bb6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sivojadirabe/lFCTxJe/instagram_pic_er_chrome.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/d172d5ac-a490-420d-8a7b-48b96245327d/manual_de_control_de_calidad_de_auditora_ejemplo_colombia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7fe6b731-3703-45da-bcbe-faf39b4d3392.filesusr.com/ugd/880a7e_984177642d8f41e8b2d8e2ccf595c362.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7a512b58-7189-4bc4-8343-f643fa9054c9.filesusr.com/ugd/1e52da_1c246df68796451cb6064286f4260c39.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bogeguva/auto_suggest_box_in_xamarin_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d3826037-6016-486c-99e9-dc41bc666644.filesusr.com/ugd/b81754_9968d37073ff40fe83effeb4fd6c4fad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f733e552-90a1-4d1f-83ca-a6b36afcf31c.filesusr.com/ugd/38bf1f_47c47480ed494d3fbdcd4377bf3901ed.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lerezazo/88405465929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/liluvad/need_for_speed_payback_ps4_trophy_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fdfba3b4-4b73-453c-bb45-99eda3284839/jojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tobaziw/how_to_connect_to_wd_my_cloud_ex2_ultra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101c3d73-5e22-4da1-a203-a3a2a794ce88.filesusr.com/ugd/69a512_ef601355a4ac4f058016884367fe87aa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ad9e3d1f-bb22-46ca-892e-b6aa3325a756.filesusr.com/ugd/837d34_10129447d0994f4fba92affdf71edba1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dae57379-2785-4108-a223-4562ecbfc22e.filesusr.com/ugd/87ad98_5fee92d8af7645138a6883b49f75a6fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90b012f7-2cb3-4919-8f0e-0506bc14356a/76144211779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://033a7475-7ccb-45c1-8f1e-38fd320d48d0.filesusr.com/ugd/03a576_7ee4059d17784086a883665ba603b0a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1482387f-61d8-47e1-b538-9b7f1e8b89fb.filesusr.com/ugd/538d67_26a7a7d298504b6cb103d1339520e96e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3adb029-dbc8-487a-8ed1-8bc97ac0b724/genetics_a_conceptual_approach_6th_edition_solutions_manual_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivuxo/best_sheet_material_for_winter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f59c0a4d-c104-43ac-8966-a5978cdf1b8c.filesusr.com/ugd/0c1ebd_d4196d281947451985463d0779f953df.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 5168 bytes
SHA-256: ccff802ffc1843b31f649cd0fd0583cb8ed7cfc1b67369e67e99f5a3f00ab58b
font_01_sfnt_off00010164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10164 11012 bytes
SHA-256: a2496940644e11625e5cfd8b44a835fd17b9e9b29880bec4a7e736eb01d191ac