Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29086812ccbfe876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-05-05 16:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a5796a5cd300a047ce55449c630e2f82 SHA-1: 7a1f906ebbe1f69be8ebce998fb071d6cd7d0191 SHA-256: 29086812ccbfe8765977c58aebe3afb95ad92a27199e1dac9e183331aa2120b6
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms hosted on disposable domains. One critical heuristic indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and URL distribution are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=does+walmart+sell+dehumidifiers+in+store In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sizebadit/Chex1P9/esl_play_clash_of_clans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kefexunas/ibjdmig/31911174039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fopalixogul/j7ehbih/true_s_world_super_jungle_adventure_new_york.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fakujodi/Tii2jt6/susagiwijoxidukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zarejesorufo/gihigdL/guitar_hero_rock_the_80s_setlist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xetasenuwoji/dhbicjg/cayman_immigration_medical_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zeterabaxax/7iehfXr/transmission_efficiency_definition_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5613ab86-cfe5-4642-b9e1-29ab5e510d76.filesusr.com/ugd/79e000_57e189f4159e464cbe57a08999d46e84.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dezajok/58702656206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kiwopusafize/houston_texas_police_department_crash_reports.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cc6d8859-fc08-4100-a073-55b48c5addfc.filesusr.com/ugd/238140_0da34f1ce4d34d7db4c0561d08084d23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tokudapele/tafurumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://89511c73-251b-4bee-a1a5-5f4bd4863124.filesusr.com/ugd/f24cb8_da8d6bb112fc4375837e89ed3675e900.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f14282ba-0ec3-4d4e-82f8-dfe79ffc5cb3/andrew_loomis_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40d120b6-b369-4fbc-808f-94ddd7b570cd/tp-link_wpa4220_wifi_powerline_adapter_kit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zinudipir/59127168647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://28481333-1ef2-46fb-8ebf-d56c3f24acbc.filesusr.com/ugd/314c35_40878692e32946c58eac9340e12d2439.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://38c8c62e-1823-4c1e-8220-bc61efcc8a1c.filesusr.com/ugd/c24b9b_d6256ef9d09d492fbff1990566f566b3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7aa73c00-894e-4078-8f08-c4d786b1dba1/basefavidenanijiburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29305bae-b21c-48f5-8ef8-1aa1b59dcbb1/masters_of_doom_epub_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/66f0d668-8089-417e-b361-66eae48181c2/18045326130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c80e3eb3-5271-4b9d-979c-b4895e370f7b/red_patch_on_face_burning_sensation.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_off0000f037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF037 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 0b1599600583359a6e98b50a3e4e6824a66c8f3299d4bbfdfd500d83628a855b
font_01_sfnt_off000101ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EE 11444 bytes
SHA-256: c26030e8b4d7858ce525dbe50f418a39b7669087c625be2230b08646e95df14a