Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fdc9f12dedf1b04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.9 KB Created: 2021-03-04 23:41:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a1908d8ff504c2ab450a8e8698a36c02 SHA-1: c903133e11e5640d96ecd5e96795cf88b59e5198 SHA-256: 2fdc9f12dedf1b04cc60f011ae2da0c85e5f4c4ab06d0c91c03904dfd94f641d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=starfleet+technical+manual+pdf`. The heuristic `PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK` confirms this. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'Starfleet technical manual'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=starfleet+technical+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482020/normal_600fd5593b864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464996/normal_5fd7d03242ae0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495037/normal_5fd1ac87baf32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagasudinabasow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325797/norukapegokolige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komaxinatobofe.medianewsonline.com/fibowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazunujovi.scienceontheweb.net/2001_silverado_trailer_wiring_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426424/normal_6026b6169d6f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisareboveda.getenjoyment.net/duzunoluxesuguval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zipobirin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135386694/6547332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6cf80756-66c2-4d2e-b15d-ff1677cb7115.filesusr.com/ugd/2257e8_6ebf6657d5884f5ab9059d333c0d70fa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4546599d-6fd8-4516-b38f-ed66bd38b736/line_6_pocket_pod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotojipifuzitul/avengers_assemble_series_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4be8a7ba-6c9a-47a4-99fc-a5961b41a404.filesusr.com/ugd/132250_7fd920bf10e84914914c523b37cb0bcc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://60f6da8c-824c-4163-aae9-6195f2ac7ed4.filesusr.com/ugd/7f16bd_70716a567a7c45fcb09858eec9f478bc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a540646a-7bdc-4e65-94c3-b9bb22791cd6/can_you_charge_powerbeats_pro_wirelessly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tometubufimopim/army_cadet_force_uniform_regulations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wovitiku/escape_room_level_141-_150_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wikurixobelu/php_fatal_error_class_numberformatter_not_found.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27581187-b36a-4e0f-aa91-bdb03fc2ba00/76530339451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a770d23-62a7-414f-b5e7-0e0e59641946/aviation_boatswains_mate_aircraft_handler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0296ecfc-28ae-4fa5-925c-67a25994cace.filesusr.com/ugd/c88839_7bf701d5ea2747e487a062a525ee0bd7.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001545b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1545B 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 3d930dd78e2a9d4095a4ff51159384da2cf87e7708687c11436d76551e658bf9
font_01_sfnt_off000189d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189D4 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 23eb490fa44e7af49e2319bd9ebfd17298019ae72e95aff92b915b261386ca9a
font_02_sfnt_off00019bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19BC5 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 987dac380fd1b386091f9660028e72a9e3baa0e35405137e1df5d5bd5acae550