Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdcd54f088ed7241…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-03-22 06:11:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9ec7be4235f7e56d91a90bdcf2010ec6 SHA-1: d2d4a6d41ed1e013ad393aa3311ea0d08546f2d1 SHA-256: fdcd54f088ed7241ec6dc52741c8d514d4177743f326d02b149f7bf5168b56ee
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely involving a second-stage download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=curriculum+vitae+format+pdf+for+teacher PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409393/normal_603e886e23b47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puxefulido.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383426/5033656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajolunuweto.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407571/gasowewugewewoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rorumelet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135969221/juvemiwufi_tefuzatikuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogoxolokelitaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134645696/9210182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420019/normal_5fd63ec418ca5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofoviwov.iblogger.org/formulas_de_los_volumenes_de_las_figuras_geometricas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418786/normal_603cc72d16a7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lidutefavova.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012516/penidutobivovojeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedijevabepepox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739982/sigepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bexusisase.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134596812/naputib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402706/normal_601e2bda8ec83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382619/normal_5fdc4b24619ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sozawozoxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509422/putumajek_korovuluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xodubepegiluli.rf.gd/bad_guy_korean_drama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/047d33bb-93ba-4257-b686-8a0682835445/push_pull_legs_build_muscle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marojinoz.rf.gd/auto_education_free_repair_manuals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9f1790cd-f1d5-4f11-a666-48dc6e57a4dc/veluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0881f8ed-33c9-4852-b5c6-bc96cb982663/xurumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0db9e90f-c412-4454-8ce5-f2a918479839/flir_one_android_app_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d509baea-f88b-4fb3-a674-0125c4e52735/zaxelupelumusorovofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33248e01-65c7-4714-be12-149cc11c6ad0/16717321612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robefopatobut.epizy.com/application_letter_sample_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7f426e8-cd24-477a-9990-816787a74eed/52265335237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a7bac50-a660-4b3f-9781-409fd068b902/25648098370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83ac8644-4f33-4aa5-bc34-082d5f545451/mekiguvuvulusuralikivukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1639058-486a-45c3-9d97-f07d40f76040/metro_last_light_redux_endings.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10343 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 2b81ff4b48e3727e243441b4331cc0f808031a6cb3575513cb4ae627d0e9e0f1
font_01_sfnt_off000114bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BC 11348 bytes
SHA-256: 7dfb1e5912f27ece4a1edc66dd2547421d8125411eeb9f0bc2771805e3b71c21
font_02_sfnt_off00013b9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B9A 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2