Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fccb4337a3bff412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-04-03 14:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fd83efce2b532b5e97289a155015469d SHA-1: 6e56faa4517a20f458b5315b627f43e2a0748274 SHA-256: fccb4337a3bff4129b6cadf4c2b30f4d2a87c4d69cd18454bccf97ed3a67bf7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=bim+360+docs+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vevaxogejaz.scienceontheweb.net/31299205801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareworig.mywebcommunity.org/96480809865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brumbum2.xyz/how_to_find_binomial_probability_distribution_on_ti-84_plusrt759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepositions.info/bamaratibomonimawuxetunn05tb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwemipuwev.mypressonline.com/bu_ali_sina_in_urdu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mon-fortuneo.best/pixoruxirakzuxh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talakam.space/8273037601hn3yf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixbicycles.com/why_am_i_so_good_at_fightingco4kz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8137cd1e-393d-4948-8193-eca935452849.filesusr.com/ugd/756799_65f8aaf32d3e46e1bfe95b82b031be3c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://720c7b34-a033-4bf0-83ea-6be17de98aa2.filesusr.com/ugd/03ef8e_e3573986d8394220ac8ecbff41a5d1b4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://besafetusupug.atwebpages.com/25061541823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://59e5a08b-0d8d-455f-a3a7-35a3b781ab3e.filesusr.com/ugd/784815_b1a3cf9f70814ecd9be9aa40ea768767.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d6236f05-450e-4b96-9875-1783d83c708b.filesusr.com/ugd/912de2_145d686d8de24c979290151b66157276.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4095172d-bd2f-4181-91d7-dd424e653400.filesusr.com/ugd/df73ab_0fe50902a6f94ec2876103ffaed55a23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a24bc4ef-4ee2-4fae-af0c-c9fea810b245.filesusr.com/ugd/67d96c_71d8562d32ab4c8f80977ede9cec1e67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d99d9bf7-a5e0-49f2-90ac-0d1bc881463d.filesusr.com/ugd/0182ef_f1afba4a1d2249bd8438a42cb393086d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rotufixijisadi.onlinewebshop.net/it_would_be_good_if_synonym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jifimurosesapu.atwebpages.com/kamala_das_as_a_confessional_poet_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6558ac43-984d-4e3a-97a1-dec8860611ed.filesusr.com/ugd/c73740_73271f2e491c4a1da4de3095f9c74b9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b1f0a730-f0e4-4bcf-918d-a915077b90d0.filesusr.com/ugd/a7c69d_019604d229f84b30bfe92bbab86c99b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://393102e6-89af-4738-8cad-89662dba8dc5.filesusr.com/ugd/33a16d_b92fd1798c134bcc9baaeca615a6fd93.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fc060a1e-8c1d-4b7d-bafd-75f79d4c6355.filesusr.com/ugd/c0a468_e25343052daa4d81b1c2dd0f3c751058.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://90138cf2-752b-46b9-a396-1872e0473e42.filesusr.com/ugd/02203e_ddef36278df74a8581ed4ba0997c6883.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B4 4032 bytes
SHA-256: 9440f71eefa4f59c7a71b16fb0b9f65724f2db68f71ee41650680a98f027c4b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF425 5808 bytes
SHA-256: 51b2ff71131a39d4bf63344845ae7592e96f827a61e2b06c5f1c05d09750177e
font_02_sfnt_off000107f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F2 11836 bytes
SHA-256: 06a1e99104d4261fd87792debcb60efe03c0d632a91eaae504e49f561caddf2c