Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24f85492a28b42f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-03-18 09:26:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 52678b77331f3c739d8133840f0a237d SHA-1: 6b8886cf281dd1697040345421c487c71353f304 SHA-256: 24f85492a28b42f4c5209239cb2f8ce6b7def3448666d35b8dfb342b061739c5
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to invoices and payment, aligning with the SE_INVOICE_LURE heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to malicious sites through a link farm, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=used+yamaha+digital+baby+grand+piano In PDF document text
    • https://vadutebo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889136/3faab9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burogoga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740280/vitodagimapawibekepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasapumaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397987/8784692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sizomejuxitiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748976/lubulavit_xonulovanuwe_pafikinidedami_waxomuvexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fifofisepag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135985139/jaduvelupot_xajodomapijewi_loxaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368250/normal_5fd63b1b75b98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobuvofuwado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483112/refofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487007/normal_602b0842d9371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogapunuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375427/wekosinevilapababim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wutotopuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134464713/guvojerexov-wubinusipemi-tivosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamedewogivazu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096977/feruvupa_kukupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408479/normal_604f6ea4a109a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowowesofazov.medianewsonline.com/88402172423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xonitaj.mywebcommunity.org/words_of_wisdom_for_new_parents_never_let.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lowunidedalovel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/sexasozekevo_zadarakawovu_joburelol_moterozenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5fe88b3a-60c7-4556-8abb-7c21fd54e3b2/formato_apa_6ta_edicion_para_bibliografia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/godewumazek/logarithmic_equations_worksheet_with_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dfc65a17-d815-43ab-8e1f-70a05af3e72e/real_heart_drawing_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sazariwapa/tovaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/972285ee-bccf-4cff-835d-559146a6dee8/good_maths_apps_for_7_year_olds_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/283085be-1e71-482c-ae6a-ef69ee258b8b/listado_de_conectores_en_ingles_y_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tibanepoxilibud/sobibobakewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lugenizuridaj.atwebpages.com/natuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/efac0b03-bfb9-4c73-a9cb-6d5a44961a09/33531912014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gifiz/1366149837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pazovugal/71798403382.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF23 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 09070ed2fd2b7e6885c911071f4152a5c13b0f98cb40227b08f31523a8803e2e
font_01_sfnt_off00010141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10141 11888 bytes
SHA-256: 2394d9d50161c5a534a9be1f0756a63a57f109481a0da05625d5f8b5b1c80461
font_02_sfnt_off000129c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176