Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1506cbdbfe974c5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-03-17 06:39:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 95f71069d112c83127b32c53bcc87ac8 SHA-1: c1ea0ab2560b67b0335249b22271657dafc528a8 SHA-256: 1506cbdbfe974c5eb65e63b8328ff81e7222558c16a2dfa91763f8cb5600aa9b
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=spanish+preterite+exercises+printable In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/puburikob/hiijahf/21258398548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usacarins.com/emerson_thermostat_manual_1f80-02612pv50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pajokiman/jfFheCg/12661219450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vasinabew/bjdfgff/92189787228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jekuzedu/cjg0jbi/piwibidimesadosawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vifutetax/giQOijd/dwelling_live_three_arch_bay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catsism.com/selogrloff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tefegegesuxe/clnBeFr/43274287790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealicaitaly-ufficiale.site/18177500592fm2co.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gixixutiji/dgjiugh/create_project_timeline_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dujejigin/jbSge92/badminton_tournament_planner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xelalizogim/Vegi2D3/time_do_dodgers_play_today.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d4f944c-1295-4e00-ac88-e7f98f13e7f8/71615350990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://af18ad75-7652-4b25-b9e0-8da5fded0af1.filesusr.com/ugd/529385_1aadfffe76c1452cad3af879086df409.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/32950654-0bd6-4a4a-be4d-a4516ec550d6/wigejobadapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://11484d69-1612-41b9-9199-165df1f08223.filesusr.com/ugd/e2f197_1166f00a56b147e9a9f48d9db53716c6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6bb2b61b-82bf-473b-8365-63ddb02ddbdd.filesusr.com/ugd/d55797_eb63ab6ca09b4754b6129676ff38b14f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b6e49935-6d58-4bde-831f-6e0b746776d3.filesusr.com/ugd/7d321f_4371ed6f9bb54770bf8f870f7f6fabae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c21d773f-4d46-4b49-a82a-45dac3ae01f4/nonifatuleviga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ad060920-74d0-4a59-a46a-f478898ed72a.filesusr.com/ugd/a7c1e6_1f819c789ec848869348767a43076391.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC62D 5012 bytes
SHA-256: bd9e5e403e9409dd6c93268817e8e8b977d5ed68af1d8573b2c882bb26586308
font_01_sfnt_off0000d717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD717 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 779075b13a1ba776bb00257a160de7fec5a76a26a42790c357fa7effaddd540c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c