Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fd6ae2ea93f2ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-03-15 05:08:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 3d03d6ed93ba840c08de3dac4b0ffc93 SHA-1: d5543308ad3c6c1414311f7900df719cb23ed394 SHA-256: 2fd6ae2ea93f2ba48e4f3c600e2207f6f52750b6b9ee142e641dad42dfeb9ae2
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded links pointing to known malicious redirectors and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Justin bieber cakes' and authoring information, which are likely lures to entice users to click the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/wix?keyword=justin+bieber+cakes In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zerurukoraju/sieUntj/interstellar_streaming_ita_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453900/normal_60112c222233a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirudikegopoded.sportsontheweb.net/newuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445534/normal_5ff69abe7fccf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wabogojo/iDficjh/tovudubesevilobafadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boketizabujig.scienceontheweb.net/download_to_word_converter_for_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jekuzedu/5hjahaV/98504428577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jixuvepabu/gegfTnQ/34421865819.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/7e8719ab-6ea5-4bed-af07-187ef0d293be/how_to_find_out_your_wiper_blade_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/773e79ba-e668-452f-aaf8-218f4140ca07/enfermedades_que_causan_picazon_en_todo_el_cuerpo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d0e9999-274a-4173-885f-1b619972d46e/norebiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0158df8c-cab1-471c-9a83-2d5d03323e5e/fegadibonebabegafope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c9c40d43-3c5a-44ba-bc15-fc0fa1582fa7/ssa_1099_example_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05784d43-9f90-4c31-bafa-b66f4cd190b1/81250784217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9ea461e-af5a-4b74-b3ec-917bc4643556/pezuvidixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajulugebimisu.myartsonline.com/what_can_i_feed_my_daphnia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c7aff13-6739-4a5c-a483-e79bdfda26f1/41022638621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9592e8d4-544a-422b-b2de-cb782848c0df/holy_quran_english_version_free_download_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lerumedinopox.onlinewebshop.net/acca_f8_revision_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f75a1a14-be75-41bf-9c4b-f11676b29070/79918416046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c303a8b0-3c9d-4b88-bea2-2d6fd9cfcbd8/23618415699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4e31d54-18c4-41da-8ff1-66052377eba0/does_xfinity_have_security_cameras.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF431 4956 bytes
SHA-256: c9df995fcc47e83b668bfb7bdb8d43c69b128fdbb39ce87fceaca9d8baebf19d
font_01_sfnt_off0001051a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051A 11804 bytes
SHA-256: b129a5e309c2dadafcc0372c4696c68a814aad698290734991b176335715db22
font_02_sfnt_off00012d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D07 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501