Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cd1ecf9112c3c58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-03-05 19:09:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: d16a83f1d4235ef742e8c3cb4f68944f SHA-1: bb8fa67291792ad84dbf007d81a952631e557590 SHA-256: 2cd1ecf9112c3c587f5a6a58266acf84c8c9a3cf5150662653eff85c1fbb22f5
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and are likely part of an SEO spam or phishing campaign. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/aws?utm_term=how+to+know+if+your+dachshund+loves+you In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jabosuve/0ihZQgg/pomijule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470221/normal_6040f575e617b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4475564/normal_5ffe849ba5089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380084/normal_6038fc05bd8d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pemejurove/gfzhcic/82870770091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mixaluwekitu/kUiaJzD/32758313566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455670/normal_5fd71a41751c6.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/8f362019-8fac-4895-9387-340a5731ac27/fifty_shades_of_grey_2016_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/720cda01-86aa-4ace-ba51-a30227d9aa0d/does_hyundai_offer_free_oil_changes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16da7b-5b4f-4122-a3c4-5c88c9d97cf7.filesusr.com/ugd/83f04e_e8cf67fa72364a4db8472eec334a8787.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3745348a-78a0-42d7-8ff4-af2b45bf5faf.filesusr.com/ugd/02631b_819d6c791e6c44df84c4ca888cbec503.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://toxanezijar.rf.gd/herblore_guide_osrs_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ee8729f-fe79-420d-bdca-8cf297f73a52/56123733536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de0f9686-45b5-4b53-8d00-af25679a9ef6/42828267541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugelinuxobeva.epizy.com/nekifejurumijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mibodezoboro.rf.gd/magijotiwusovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c0a7cc2-70a7-45fd-ad11-caf5da8a7c5b/oster_blender_parts_6650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b70d656f-3a65-4989-ba4c-bfff37fa74dd/dibivegitujetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae84c441-8f8f-40b7-85b2-f104d9327d13/casio_g-shock_protrek_pathfinder_solar_watch-waterproof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://61df3396-90b5-4b69-a3ae-475c9da6ebc5.filesusr.com/ugd/516574_9e1005a6290940acbe631a86806b4c9f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jadupapobixe.epizy.com/cavelli_bed_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://71e5fc8e-cc9a-4633-96c3-2c70acd464d0.filesusr.com/ugd/f08e01_fab51b575f9f4d379a4933b9ea799d6a.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000102bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BF 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 10d752b18fc07c8e5d345399a0c8ba2f390a5aae19b511eea969be64dad128c8
font_01_sfnt_off0001152a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152A 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 01da042288a80bedcde0dc09041b2aa735a96aea2e26060bbe21d827e4b5058a