Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcee36fc8cba5653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-03-23 21:58:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 4aca5d803c93feac71df86d8f5ec278a SHA-1: 1d2ec70ff1960dee3e318ba07f51074e9e963e99 SHA-256: fcee36fc8cba5653b625d5529d26c5c39b3e51c07ceb089ee6dff43b8946c837
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URL 'https://botokaw.ru/wix?keyword=my+nursing+philosophy' is a primary indicator of the malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://botokaw.ru/wix?keyword=my+nursing+philosophy PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://7211abc3-b26e-437e-abd8-8a8c7ebd4af5.filesusr.com/ugd/0683fb_40e98f8d178f47829323dad83bcfc826.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ce3a146a-d504-4efb-981c-4593fb85d965.filesusr.com/ugd/5b5da7_e8ad631423fb43a2be01fe886aafe022.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/efe121ae-904c-46fd-a8e3-f38878787efb/aprendizajes_clave_primer_grado_primaria_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0029a690-d003-4268-bdc7-e74daa5a0415.filesusr.com/ugd/a4b355_a6b679080aa843b99874958129681cbe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bikikanafopavu/butevila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aed022ca-8a9d-452d-9022-56a74a585a14.filesusr.com/ugd/4d548e_4cbf4463455145b2ac51ce67ce2ebb92.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zarevizebi/jifujuzubivovama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e3c0c9b-3715-4929-801c-5c28a8ab4263/84483212017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5eb57b6-4e6d-44a4-8013-b9eb5b498eec/que_parte_de_la_biblia_fue_escrita_en_arameo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://41fe7446-7195-45c8-906d-de5e784989f9.filesusr.com/ugd/e02969_50b903a133284455b7ce3dbede6ae04f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39ad70c8-6a03-4de2-a89b-b0209cba5754.filesusr.com/ugd/d2759c_c8f50755b41d4009a4ee9d3cbfd7375b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b949be5-44ef-49af-96c7-0ebaa8fe632e.filesusr.com/ugd/3402b1_a8862245cdff4d578b6553006756fbe0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jeduzizonox/how_to_determine_the_acceleration_due_to_gravity_using_a_simple_pendulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43ea232e-76f3-4185-a90d-2d36621767f9/46600373074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1445eaf-c369-4cf2-b9c8-ea09e5b39f56/tedixebitapuviliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ad2b792-9ea1-4f94-b196-a6c2ab208645/how_to_find_free_writing_fonts_for_cricut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://770603ce-cae8-48b7-b4e8-6e15b9dac1cd.filesusr.com/ugd/e975af_47746f593f294ded96a4e4be4e5a1fdd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d190c387-1498-4382-a59e-98d1a0a9794c.filesusr.com/ugd/a91264_f58ebd45ee0b4088b01a94cacb584157.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b6c9d0de-81a1-4db9-ab7d-8a95af9e63d6.filesusr.com/ugd/b28ae2_cf7e12c7e45c41868e6b192e2d54a4a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jazamerijekufol/kojopiriparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8f98835-b194-42a5-b43f-fe2f29920dd6.filesusr.com/ugd/bf650e_1a355acba3a5441e91e967ffd5c0d3ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d429d46a-6203-486b-8c9d-ede5597e1383.filesusr.com/ugd/419b00_268fd91146dc485f808553a531491306.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c78ffd2e-fc3d-4272-86ca-968d835fb7ad.filesusr.com/ugd/0f9ef0_75587188a8194834beebab97b9743362.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://af18ad75-7652-4b25-b9e0-8da5fded0af1.filesusr.com/ugd/529385_88650b20413f4e7ab33684e480d659f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fdc278e7-3b2c-467f-b230-bbd9864e95ce/aves_sin_nido_resumen_corto_por_capitulos.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_off000113ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FF 4976 bytes
SHA-256: d47bf6912583b93da41df6a8772e3225afd7cc22ba5555050d5144eafc1bcedc
font_01_sfnt_off000124ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FF 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 2d7750bd4ecf4865906993b47cfba625eaceae040a517bc61fb40d4efee63d6a