Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 209ab4c4bfe26c20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-05-12 10:35:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a275e6a081db10e0fe68f19ddcf8aaef SHA-1: 279724de2bcc2ebd9c1167b2c07850ca60ea5218 SHA-256: 209ab4c4bfe26c20000ad24758b92aae6d89df4b6c2a23e9729f723f760095a9
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, including critical detections for malicious redirector links and a link farm. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, which are likely used to distribute further malicious content or phish for user credentials. The presence of a malicious redirector URL suggests an attempt to lead the user to a compromised or malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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/strik?utm_term=active+reading+energy+flow+in+ecosystems+worksheet In PDF document text
    • https://girosunemakafe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739351/wefebexuxagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fefugenaxidoseb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380158/bizogubifugupexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4423715/normal_5ff2171216c0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477913/normal_5ff4df03a9ca1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dibevoxatatot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164568/larudewikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dopikilazobowu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134488506/93fb538c26d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lovarewido.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322716/081cbec8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375071/normal_5fcd306291d23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452382/normal_60628a2777216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusufuxufatup.getenjoyment.net/38464445427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387420/normal_5fd340645bc0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisogelodaze.medianewsonline.com/birthday_calendar_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ba3a7bb5-edd2-4228-b29c-cf272df6a868.filesusr.com/ugd/bd1c09_7b99535e48be4775a59053868b518d9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nisoxow/regive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rabewiruzitewa/mijixuxegola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3857ddc0-2b33-46ba-b4a8-ebef9b167687.filesusr.com/ugd/5cc0d5_93019a9f462944d5a691e294fb4d0742.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0621cc9e-6449-4e8a-a8bd-baee9ad62a2c.filesusr.com/ugd/affb4a_152b2f37205b4d2a9227518482ab502b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f039f7e9-c7fa-441d-bf3d-2f0e35d6be10.filesusr.com/ugd/80685d_06377eb63b404208bfa2cd72fceabb47.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/falufusu/mary_poppins_book_set.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://78fa80b2-8629-447b-ad63-53e91e8d4948.filesusr.com/ugd/8f02de_f9ea9ad3834f4f98a9ef839bcdfeb79e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://24d1f61b-f5c5-4d2f-8180-62589f44e8d8.filesusr.com/ugd/eed56f_88168c345bc244f88a3943842acb3865.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muxegeza/cordless_telephone_without_answering_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runuwug.myartsonline.com/larefawotupimukivukedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0879403c-3be5-48e4-925f-21334a7d5cfe.filesusr.com/ugd/407fcc_064c2063cff44846bb607c89526fa94e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ce099f17-eb12-430b-a452-8d789b3ee5a8.filesusr.com/ugd/aef5b7_6b348805b5854d1c8d24afbfc972fd01.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_off00010234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10234 5744 bytes
SHA-256: e6f8c4967e57a85cc6a3c89037df195d36238a4a1d10e748a5e47a770acbe49a
font_01_sfnt_off000115ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BA 11664 bytes
SHA-256: 245dfa951f45646191c1224b8fa5f20a9d890d4238b8b02ec25a55f336a869a5