Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d48cdac21d0f492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-03-22 10:16:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: e499cd4b068a6fb55e2d1e6b263957f5 SHA-1: 21236d465288f890c3b1b6f27ca89e0aa316d7eb SHA-256: 1d48cdac21d0f492e4aca16c8aeabeb4d531c7487dee802592936dc1d1863b4e
324 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm with numerous external PDF links. The primary malicious URL, https://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=associer+des+pages+pdf, is flagged as a redirector to known malicious infrastructure. The document also contains a heuristic for password-protected archive lures, suggesting it may be used to deliver encrypted malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Clickable PDF combines external action with parser-evasion structure high PDF_ACTION_PARSER_EVASION
    PDF has an external clickable URI together with object graph or xref structures that make parsers disagree, such as divergent duplicate objects, parser divergence, or xref offset mismatch. That combination is stronger than a plain link: the document is both an outward-action carrier and a parser-confusion/evasion sample.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=associer+des+pages+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sozovifena/WLihT1s/91279536154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fadadedezeker/epa_tier_ii_spcc_plan_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/disonixures/mibigjb/time_of_exploration_strategy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachts-4-sale.com/16706047682iukr1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kejalupegem/7wuDifW/first_grade_cursive_practice_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nezipumosot/hgXmjew/52646009933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuzinirumawe/hjRidjj/hepatitis_a_symptoms_timeline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lubometusoz/ifhjrDO/golden_spike_brigham_city_ut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gabunufu/hjiYPgh/sugafudifafukare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotepopunaj/15590500714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aires.fun/zexusubosax2n1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebesudanolo/raxakugefoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-kalinka.ru/85603688921njp99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wixexozesila/adiejhh/download_aplikasi_maps_of_clash_of_clans_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rizoli/p_r_a_ka_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodirorip/jejhHhe/zombie_roadkill_mod_apk_uptodown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wifopuzuxiba/jVggDzC/tovoninexefinikisika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vedoreket/hg2Ongj/56830773181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/laripikiwafo/cgjhawM/91376433808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastpysystem.online/109261362202hmin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000eb20.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000eb20.bin)
    • https://72dfff08-f6cb-4f5d-aaac-ebe71175d6a6.filesusr.com/ugd/c268f7_cf66c949601149e2958a824675b3339f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c0b8f06b-4e98-4d3d-89ef-2f08caba629a.filesusr.com/ugd/0c8cc8_6f50c33beed1417fac782d58ac0bd34b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2d130471-2a64-48ba-87cf-8f1e86c6acad.filesusr.com/ugd/9c43ec_2d6756fe578d44bf90b7bb37db11abe2.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000eb20.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn extracted file (font_02_sfnt_off00012424.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_02_sfnt_off00012424.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB20 5280 bytes
SHA-256: e6d8e5ee996c8bd3b39054c28eca41fcc140ad6b40243e062df8b724ee4607aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2A 12132 bytes
SHA-256: f11fe51f7d4f96cac139d2fbc301d4af362f62cc9e3424c9a5d3d90df0927ccf
font_02_sfnt_off00012424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12424 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 2cadb2ae25cea88cb182acc54f62d1c218aef5f2772c4081b94d5d3cddde1204