Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19ba80ac91c14684…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-02-23 23:57:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 826f14d6b5069aaf9b2a8c533f7257ef SHA-1: 295ed96cf0d57fd36b7ee88f9e391c2425cf6674 SHA-256: 19ba80ac91c14684203f4c6dedb2cf9f2849cd82df792d562ca5d2c85254072c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to external PDF files on disposable hosting. This pattern is indicative of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The presence of a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link and ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • 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=2016+subaru+crosstrek+manual+transmission+review In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426814/normal_5fea39378bfc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://characduwe.space/principios_de_administracion_financibct9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamini33.ru/lojejoferisowesipmyyfu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunoworuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017870/b13df157c9d3a32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446789/normal_5fd5f7b558330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaapple.space/90024880742ekan9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489730/normal_5fd791b3d67fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386365/normal_600a4f29396b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413986/normal_5fef4a1a111d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frut-tree.site/wakinovali9sllh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorakipep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747047/99a969ba266b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxafapunubi/gjzialO/47762655392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382186/normal_5fe56c2abf2f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384460/normal_5ff5b11966f09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panidulupeju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969186/3832114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturapple.space/66119363052zxj1t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491436/normal_601431800060e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkysnaya-eda.site/strategic_management_of_resourcesjsca8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000fae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE8 12092 bytes
SHA-256: ba5a1c0ab7c766fdc53dad0c7b4ba0b2e96ec88ea04ba8cd88861808b1aa517b
font_01_sfnt_off00012189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12189 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 43d3aadbbf7b8d0292e1111b827165d8d08e8aac37f3fcb918252a411b16f2be
font_02_sfnt_off000134de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134DE 11236 bytes
SHA-256: c095c2856cfbc95fd36ed4924d9473678e7c7a1eb86057e42359967c635fa0a3