Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdc753b16f062486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-05-13 21:59:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 289b9fd564210d785d243c8b1bdbac7e SHA-1: 225f38a8697f723e1dae337d70bfc1306d6b8533 SHA-256: fdc753b16f06248699a517595c4655c7f291432d0a66abad4f0ba3a446a7a8bf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and exhibiting link farm characteristics, strongly suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection confirm the malicious nature of the file. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=do+you+need+a+license+to+do+lash+extensions+at+home PDF link annotation
    • http://jarisudowapebi.sportsontheweb.net/f._a._c._e._s_curriculum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mizipudi/cghwfgc/stumble_inn_menu_capron_il.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delayikapy.xyz/datokobisovorokitozidokedqjpk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494673/normal_604d0bb313186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tewosube.mypressonline.com/algebraic_identities_for_class_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424991/normal_5ff6175d08d30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevagawos.getenjoyment.net/62047792830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jibenapola/sjcOgdW/android_tv_box_launcher_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dojatejij/MOjjnif/velodyne_graf_industrial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tublitalia.space/real_easy_book_volume_3i6gfe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ramazunor/aciiMjh/ed_tech_newsletters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeswins.space/billions_arousal_template_online23fcu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekifek.scienceontheweb.net/le_corbusier_five_points_of_architecture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426424/normal_5fe518c909ae6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://mixezized.myartsonline.com/induced_draft_counterflow_cooling_tower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafodix.myartsonline.com/sharp_aquos_reset_pin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/besafefaf/lesser_banishing_ritual_of_the_pentagram_wikihow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xuzakob/dizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejegaba.atwebpages.com/the_elements_of_journalism_chapter_1_summary.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_off0000e799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE799 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8d5fc087d36b94102638e3e2da0cb939624117b6c4c4aeba3c26e4a74acd8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF964 10960 bytes
SHA-256: fdca2772647ea6e5f59d13305f36d1f314f5fd5a74c77a6f21e40c749b7d7a79