Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17b7f278d590752e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-03-19 19:49:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2721a1fdc623391e69725a0e1dc8c0ec SHA-1: bb753a54271767f9a63fde489166d7328256d7a8 SHA-256: 17b7f278d590752e7a7b484d89ee8c47aba3213567c863da2e97de9bdfe78e60
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to redirector infrastructure and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic firings, particularly PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS, strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to worksheets and answers, likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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=conditional+probability+mathbits+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fuwuwoki/zx3uKig/dodafuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tokafumotebi/hiUW8hc/36205259729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xejudawadoni/gUnjhhf/bitlife_prison_escape_8x8_map_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zizenozi/BXhcmJV/murepedopolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lewonuvaxu/icRgeia/extreme_super_car_driving_18_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davixugamewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135334906/a755c1c98cd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxefitipar.iblogger.org/cheap_android_phones_in_nigeria_market.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamegipizof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647446/bowivarodezaf_dunulodiwodipet_fexikazojarinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/natefisaka/hbjgfzm/printable_wargame_flags.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vewewiganivobob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852084/c9519b46db029f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vemasujananexu.22web.org/1997_jeep_wrangler_replacement_door_panels.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kalusoxat/KE8cib3/highway_to_hell_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ferudati/9mFIwjh/hay_day_game_for_pc_play_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lagitesavap/gcuH6je/us_dietary_guidelines_2015_executive_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vozevadijut/fKV1ie3/fluid_wallpaper_hd.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/bagisi/24673185340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tilitun.epizy.com/how_to_clean_dell_e525w_printer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gokamevagared.epizy.com/sir_gawain_and_the_green_knight_romance_characteristics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fefurorobumi/bow_tie_analysis_excel_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fadobirak/los_juegos_del_hambre_1_pelicula_completa_en_espaol_latino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fibesezati/41381533882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1b3fde16-7575-45ba-b40e-8916c64185ca.filesusr.com/ugd/8874e8_818f7c42e5f449d9b5e3afe6b9258504.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://36c533ef-57e7-4b90-8cc4-98798f028392.filesusr.com/ugd/55f640_f905dba5460b4c7b9b916aa8d82b1633.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_off0000ebcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCF 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 8adaf1d85a23aafd39d34475e0bc88ea8126bc6590887f8defe08340f9818ff4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5F 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 57b800b3886c9a2613af128d555853b004ff03aeeb97d18db6176f6fa1b0d236