Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe4438efc09be524…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-03-29 13:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 8ef3750335c6a352287701fd87fd33cb SHA-1: 1e052e015d55f4b04ca0dded906f246b1aae5279 SHA-256: fe4438efc09be5240a9768cda35c7421991ff5461705f16c150345ebe7bd0fbc
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded links and a heuristic firing for a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 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://dugedepap.ru/wix?keyword=ccnp+switch+instructor+lab+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cherrypimp.online/362124406008ytdr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482638/normal_605f47585c71f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://justamorem.com/93123980252eeac9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebetadiruj.mywebcommunity.org/dd_3.5_classes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465263/normal_5ff19c1f9a425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4528876/normal_60512ee190737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuvagezilavez.mygamesonline.org/57396032532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4503874/normal_6058fbd770e88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379613/normal_605bf438153c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafupofamurawaf.mygamesonline.org/what_are_the_elements_and_principles_of_sculpture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealslimitaly-official.site/why_is_ralph_waldo_emerson_important_when_we_consider_american_literature9m4oj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456699/normal_5fd3797bdba47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcam-model.online/panasonic_bread_machine_sd-yd250_partsvula0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleaner-inn.club/fire_and_ice_jewelry_bwi_airportnagya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shiroifloret.com/download/ccnp-route-lab-manual-In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://c96d0889-97fb-4213-90a4-a08ae01970e6.filesusr.com/ugd/ed32f2_6f56c3b2ea5a4075b05589e3cf3be579.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bifovigavij.myartsonline.com/3892757269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cad90261-f038-4e8a-b384-2e0e37e6cb8c.filesusr.com/ugd/4c4e45_aa49c2a26e274dba8b1337b1b999814d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/74c7d733-e56b-4005-90b6-9ac13e002772/kingdom_man_tony_evans_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujugeteteda.myartsonline.com/81224862625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92375d8d-9d18-4006-80cb-4da3c06456c2/tabitibopaxonufebalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e29f0852-aa8c-4fc4-a5db-fcd144ab7086.filesusr.com/ugd/b730be_965bb3d91e0145c19d6bd0e99d7d4a48.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE184 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 67826b3f515e14870772c0d83f33c3da06be313bfdc5f0507f80726803244494
font_01_sfnt_off0000f433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF433 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 90746310d002e3f394440e6852d666846a0bf02c5d41f3b2c47b9e5ad0b969a0