Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b63b541554d5d44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-03-23 23:44:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 87b92fb9d17e8d8230d0f8602e5edaac SHA-1: e8ed60ea9df41858558a5e44d2e7d4117ac56e5f SHA-256: 2b63b541554d5d44058193562a31e90813921f0668e2bc13747eb971575929d5
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure, possibly related to a government report, to entice users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/123?utm_term=nsw+government+legal+services+panel+annual+report In PDF document text
    • http://zakukamupavi.22web.org/roll20_character_sheet_expertise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fubafonu/tSuje1C/dukuzewegukizajiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xevowuto/ig6nfji/rick_and_morty_talking_cat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedexapotup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134472831/nimuziberobubu-vovudanine-nipodezibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribarifi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266405/54a782ebaa2c19d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zeduxuvanoripi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775880/742748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wetegawufuju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302163/33a955040da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zaronafi/BCjbsbx/93332523025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotomogef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134760479/5168b07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kisunika/gjhggfJ/cytus_2_all_songs_unlocked_ios.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/95885d3a-b791-4bda-926b-9f14956ed4c9/brain_teaser_hamlet_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bejilelik.rf.gd/10083516655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a0d2adcf-75bd-42a9-a42a-c23e1c6e9e1a.filesusr.com/ugd/85c99c_fd047a05071e427e8ec29dd15615bbab.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vegafojapamava.epizy.com/nujekesawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nipesuvaz.epizy.com/ff13_upgrade_guide_accessories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://17a6c5a8-0587-4adf-8126-5b439e15a62f.filesusr.com/ugd/54bec1_4cb948265ba34744b18fa481f3434361.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://radizala.epizy.com/sleep_eric_whitacre_score.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivujumurabaf.epizy.com/33594841959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zarevamemamafo.rf.gd/2020_calendar_malayalam_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4cb3ccab-d870-448c-8462-d171720b990e/3874714092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caa91486-5fcc-43b7-8b2b-5b817ae85bbe.filesusr.com/ugd/26bbcf_7028a551269746e0bc97a06d4b3974be.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0e67983c-e844-40c9-b604-97311ec94efe.filesusr.com/ugd/6e13d9_a9e8542a8766483e869036c3686ad84b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20d279c0-07f2-4def-b20b-fed8863cbda0/opentx_companion_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e0271a52-a7af-48e9-8a99-924ce320ec62.filesusr.com/ugd/be5703_1bb5b3064db74966b7853e700b4bd4b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tuganireriwem.rf.gd/acr_gout_guideline_2017.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_off0001101c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101C 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 0c52625597cf33453cf185ae69554b1fff8f63842d3f1e04d63466bd0b3efc15
font_01_sfnt_off00012272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12272 11600 bytes
SHA-256: ee4a455407946fc68da19c0f2a011965fc4a5c5429d69c7aad0ffb06a179b6fd