Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b7c9e5052683dd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-04-06 20:19:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 550872ed0f9e8df6c8ab9a9af1b37340 SHA-1: ca4ab2cf67214086c0476f050ebaa83127f29b78 SHA-256: 1b7c9e5052683dd4eb4f8df3718a1dabb61f8d1247929f8f4fdee7c6f5d2d9ed
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to installation instructions, likely a lure to encourage clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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=how+to+install+directv+to+firestick In PDF document text
    • http://xanejog.medianewsonline.com/44370237673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490547/normal_6007c495d1ce9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubevos.scienceontheweb.net/78936509482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423189/normal_602ecc176417e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tujarabevazedi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235746/e3a64653d267c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379363/normal_605d7a1aa36ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gasaromub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776100/zadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401559/normal_6017b7ae45f7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munelexogetajax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437313/73f1fcdaa4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405662/normal_5fe84149801df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xijulefabogi.getenjoyment.net/star_spangled_banner_alto_sax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fuxunowelujuxa.atwebpages.com/oxford_bookworms_library_starter_robin_hood.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d74404e5-ae39-4d2a-826a-e090ee1a9a29/39914656720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muvazi/best_python_tutorial_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/werowibovezoje/91025227691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23e05ec0-672d-4abc-849f-3bbd8ed2fc1d/bevibimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pezofut/52209995871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinusisokopex.atwebpages.com/bulosoromavutenifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jitimesolagun/how_long_ago_was_the_bible_book_of_job_written.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonurupadul.atwebpages.com/kukenagasiwivakozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sawesupunozigiv.atwebpages.com/rogebigom.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10792 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba9c7fd90289a0f755059f5be884eda6036b02f4f256737d6aec68247b8721d
font_01_sfnt_off00011963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11963 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 81d1d4be868bcbea95d904435013612091372f3fa85d6d27a0082835b4a04e70