Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2756d18afd985fe8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-04-20 08:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7f6ca4d1d7bc725975b169d562fd3eb9 SHA-1: bd5cf4adb79c13ad93561b440af6161b5e51805f SHA-256: 2756d18afd985fe8fca1ff647aecd83648b0c2c994c18faec7542baf77a917aa
200 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, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to educational materials, combined with urgency language, to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=cbse+grade+3+maths+textbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://botakukejase.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610266/50c818902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pakebisas/cBTjahe/the_beggar_s_opera_gay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felekiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134689652/284f8a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bawusipa/BP9iahi/overkill_strike_fury_shooting_beast_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezofugowura/hbvBhdC/artillery_sidewinder_x1_firmware_type.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonumizesux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631676/a138f96f122b34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366007/normal_605404cb1cb50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redirusoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134704710/ea668dbcbf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455658/normal_5fe7116031a33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fumasidabufip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775820/neresas_jiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/numiwuzuwix/fwFgigg/african_hair_braiding_in_houston_tx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415530/normal_5fdf2f9808066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1072a040-06bb-4611-b0f3-d0ffc29df67f/wabofovalomopimufekugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dipafuxe/natezelusixina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b08086d-18c7-4eec-96a6-bd44ac4a287c/1989_yamaha_moto_4_350_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bifamomove/norelco_9000_series_blades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c8429a5f-8081-4652-a3bb-70c689f917b5/does_my_rv_water_heater_need_an_anode_rod.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_off0000dc70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC70 5764 bytes
SHA-256: cc67eb34be510ce3752adc934aae3819a5268762975df29a83848d50e0f2386d
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE2 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 40974b12749f9646b00ef7398faeb75c96db80cec7adc57c889fb58abd153ec1