Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c778442cce1d269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-03-21 01:34:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 898ec08a8ca34f34c5ebe7c1b5f411cd SHA-1: e6273c7739c80b2e1914eced4b98a10038b0f613 SHA-256: 2c778442cce1d269a9c96ff02bedffda4699767f2d1e39b965fd7869b95be78e
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to downloading a technical document, aligning with a lure for malicious content.

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 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.
  • 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/award?keyword=antennas+and+wave+propagation+by+bakshi+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/denirinodo/pLgj3jj/27438395621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vilubofi/0jgjdK3/bafasojojilaxerurorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dosijowikul/ijosgiS/73955986752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wanoposuj/jMjjzhg/wajurireputijigesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://puxetedategekex.epizy.com/67151780467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mokuwanibof/xolusifano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6d706a39-1f93-4f1a-9423-caccf7e65e71.filesusr.com/ugd/69f91f_b9cb4beb0b6646bfb26f75834e7811f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xilasisefi/94496059424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitogopafo.epizy.com/dodge_caliber_2009_dashboard_lights.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b15b8b72-7bdd-4d2f-b39d-b9922f5a8c5a/zaragugafugusefabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fa6dcb7f-83f1-407b-8698-e088a12f052e/zabujisuvemejufusapofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e980f2dd-67fc-473d-ac1b-a893bb2d9fc9/harry_potter_wand_amazon_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5053e88e-9e18-4719-890c-32a1cca0295d.filesusr.com/ugd/411503_e30ddb13e6854099b0175e382db39bfb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc13e016-a067-4df3-9fdc-2dabf995b62e/how_much_does_gum_reduction_cost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b5b764bc-4fc6-48d7-9a4b-423a4d05f225.filesusr.com/ugd/3f2390_3b5905066cbe4a3a8554e53402c9f6f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ecf1b359-4982-44d9-836f-7e6f5fec4aa1.filesusr.com/ugd/da15c8_3a1fc80137e942188914c6ce0147000d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pusixa/vehicle_mechanical_inspection_report_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0ddcfbd6-fe67-43c3-bd42-3fbde1cd5200/who_are_the_watchman_in_the_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/261ecc16-b91b-4e3c-8b83-b1a3685d885f/what_does_the_bible_say_about_being_the_man_of_the_house.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e9cc6eb-e31b-4085-96b4-165c1ad1195e/rifaximozupil.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_off0000d560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD560 5752 bytes
SHA-256: 30ce6b792ca88a888ad7184fdfdee11b7ea6d45034561013c9182d6c020296fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000e909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE909 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 3192b82a0cfc563c6e39a24620167f50b3331dc98e23ec0571801bf5ea3a18fd