Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faae00dba783f3f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

181.2 KB Created: 2021-04-01 17:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f69e404684dd48a3c75254976afc5781 SHA-1: 822edf3108d20e11250f98303bd0e208212f3896 SHA-256: faae00dba783f3f5489c616046832f58bed4624a0acbda7030004b8828211583
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded URI that redirects to a suspicious domain, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=hunter+x+core+controller+manual+run
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414173/normal_604437daa7855.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rureroso/gDa0AMA/wheel_of_fortune_game_show_wiki.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459941/normal_6002d6c96c812.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477886/normal_6003b1add42a8.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuditufu/yhhXUyB/18818659691.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinolefowi/P9jf0XR/heroes_of_order_chaos_pc_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jiloduvunilu/giIhhii/zijuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gemesikexo/chedaje/ipad_2_drum_machine_app.pdf
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://ba10d46a-d7c1-43af-8542-f1a50f31aa8a.filesusr.com/ugd/4dded2_fa81fdb01f0f4dac928d9692f239ef56.pdf?index=true
    • https://1c985592-4fe2-425a-b8d2-7dc24782370c.filesusr.com/ugd/a13bc2_5debf3f2a17c4c14954d7d714ef92a89.pdf?index=true
    • https://f55c6975-0091-4942-a106-dc80285e5f9d.filesusr.com/ugd/8a4248_47f398733c914a6497454194a11f0620.pdf?index=true
    • https://e966359d-176b-477a-9ad9-c314bea94227.filesusr.com/ugd/fa6f14_353e5eaad6004f70baf97715c2f7bb52.pdf?index=true
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuvovoxigumuz/diwidusomewajonukopi.pdf
    • https://8458b573-1d6d-478c-912c-b10a972f31df.filesusr.com/ugd/150112_f728552969a542a79bb609861e3f8e87.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2f296ce-03af-4320-92bb-32502bd7971f/how_to_stop_candle_flame_flickering.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nijosinizo/ecosystem_worksheets_3rd_grade.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e37c377a-4c26-42ef-84ab-ecf9abe5d1b8/kufig.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9596dda8-7724-4e45-9ec1-0fd2eec7f607/how_to_program_craftsman_1_2_hp_garage_door_opener_keypad.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/669df2cb-9615-4943-854e-35bb99d3741c/la_declaracion_universal_de_los_derechos_humanos_30_articulos.pdf
    • https://a49aa754-465e-4bbd-924e-b3d0e7b66bd4.filesusr.com/ugd/81d6a4_ec6b77daf236423fa1dfa02827355714.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0671daeb-1e4e-41d4-804e-b9c1ea69173b/25583107915.pdf
    • https://1416a32c-f91c-4ec3-9c10-bfdf610c7df7.filesusr.com/ugd/76de1a_f93328c0cd1d4131881a9f6b8919938b.pdf?index=true
    • https://0eb00d84-361a-45dc-b346-1af5c8eb785c.filesusr.com/ugd/d79848_e601c6c3ae174b53993f8328927ebe9e.pdf?index=true
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00026d49.bin
6d13f9b60e6ab50273c4cd30e61cc67ab4efd2815a35aae0eaa4aab64b5da733
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26D49 2152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00027765.bin
a0e649be9fe71527c4ea1032b08700cddc73d75ddfeb2c99482bf0a6e99b7b62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27765 4632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000286f9.bin
bc5e307ede78f986e5aa7ccb63a236b748418567d36a6c9f321b1a5cb480cde6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x286F9 15940 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0002b7ab.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B7AB 4324 bytes