Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 090d2d7ad23d43b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-03-27 22:09:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: f98893e8e0b77f15fe59706766dbd4fd SHA-1: 4a51d407ece4576f076756cdbe9ef1f993bcc96e SHA-256: 090d2d7ad23d43b42aea7426a47aecf4968603dbc38d77064f78eaa65125a0b8
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, including a critical alert for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains strings related to 'caller ringtone application' and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to a potentially malicious website. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://dafemum.ru/123?utm_term=caller+ringtone+application In PDF document text
    • http://tozimapowox.iblogger.org/67817843943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448731/normal_5ff0bc9fd7baf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451205/normal_5fe8408bc63d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lupazul.mywebcommunity.org/gadove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-redirect.icu/how_to_google_my_maps7y7hs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pikejofopon.mypressonline.com/how_much_turkish_steel_does_the_us_import.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizionsmc.net/badger_5_1_2_hp_garbage_disposal_with_cord66aaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424024/normal_600c629e4b191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobatorosas.mypressonline.com/atkins_principios_de_la_quimica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mowefopovog.mywebcommunity.org/64421813225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379618/normal_60591f6ce94d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://wabalegawamiraj.rf.gd/68391809003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae0be24f-ee85-477b-958b-ede9ea913334/the_neverending_story_2001_dvd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e2dc59f-ea6c-492b-9663-e7cb4c7b477a/59255277016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rixexovujawuvow.rf.gd/jump_starter_cables_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://329f26c8-0235-4118-8622-173d264d9cf1.filesusr.com/ugd/221f3a_2b085479516d4eec991eabe7de443c34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wivonubezur.epizy.com/23986185559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delozaroj.epizy.com/weredalomosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a694a867-b0fa-45cd-b082-7f9abf80b1a7.filesusr.com/ugd/430cb2_f999e923b6f848b5b72b2736ccf10107.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8a99b63-75c6-45e6-a265-8570ee001d04/97533221995.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE889 4736 bytes
SHA-256: 16fe9b7ab2c84384bdd0dcbeb1f14f76c701b1d550f4ca2ebc7731a7ad34bf58
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AD 10876 bytes
SHA-256: c180b5b5b7bd8f250e9b2f115997f4c5a7ef8c8acfbd911c51d8f592ae543bba
font_02_sfnt_off00011de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f