Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ac8ee7c95e4892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-03-15 11:05:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 28db64e6884fa8bf6e5f9bd611459b1a SHA-1: b64a871d575aab412afa3af1d8f55924b52a8df6 SHA-256: 01ac8ee7c95e489258da47c8a3ddc201c03d7a39dc605647b15e82988d4f649b
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and link farm attack. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and includes a primary redirector URL designed to lead users to a large collection of other PDF files. The document also employs a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update, which is a common method for credential theft or malware installation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=free+2d+animation+software+for+chromebook In PDF document text
    • https://nategenuniko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749174/norizodumilomusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sorafenime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320910/nijakexusabilawuxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulapelaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135970028/kekagibuseboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buvonumonub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304713/zigadoleramis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luwujejajevobo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407494/zivev_ludisejos_xuvisa_vesomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legunumazonum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134455594/3972115880d3e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ziruxirunilexa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775543/wibunanubenufebujora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tudexabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770635/dakuvopares-domedowuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mugabezimezik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235171/xokawuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawerofe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134361643/c72084e929f00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xebololu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340913/nekusizenali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xapowukugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702937/7764936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxesawaxogego.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314991/toxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tudawufed/carrom_disc_pool_apkpure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/33a1a336-7f5a-4030-adad-0e82db775b1b/76553413439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pulavokaxe/uncle_tom_s_cabin_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://53860ffb-5975-4088-b838-5c82367c2827.filesusr.com/ugd/0d2908_b7e66bdafd5442d4866d6c601efb2f6a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5a8aee2d-3d68-4c09-98ed-743c9c56d6fd.filesusr.com/ugd/460efe_e70cec7ea64442dbb8ed3180c30428f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ccb9a81-bd3c-41bd-bc79-2352350f0e5e.filesusr.com/ugd/95ea6b_34b0fbb55ea74b7c807610e1cf1bf765.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8aefc570-8454-48c3-bb63-d4d1067b7ce0.filesusr.com/ugd/5c9621_27d9af7b45404d569a6b2330e02616bc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a8d934d-8b70-427c-ac6b-1b681f009120/vista_128fbp_user_code_programming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9489b4f9-0944-433a-9689-87214f9505b1/77387503287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e9f9aca-e214-4b52-b529-4575761edaa0/79328594542.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_off0000eba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA4 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 7a8b7af59905f8759cf7b7fe7c82a82c5278f47f6fce623b8a9717d0d81aa289
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA9 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 060fd613d91b46754f45e8a251444a3b1923155cf15aefcf8f95c39766f36950
font_02_sfnt_off00012401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12401 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449