Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31701d6c2fce8b25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-04-05 04:00:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 924b2321a00d516241b34a88c0b1f590 SHA-1: c78956a1f8d273a44687552e56518653342b8c42 SHA-256: 31701d6c2fce8b251272e47b9b96e0fdaac99239a7701a1e10c20f70739990e4
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm and redirects to malicious infrastructure. Several URLs are identified as potentially malicious or hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=clear+blue+coupons+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://novubelugalij.medianewsonline.com/affect_vs_effect_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nunesop.scienceontheweb.net/mulirezagano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisubemiduburor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380627/sazilapa-tarigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutumujupag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383630/jazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roralolew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775143/1844456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tizitumobupo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134904485/3199882ee3f96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paxixikepidak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666626/petafew-rijivadosizizan-sikibedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wijedokimevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134649091/1153505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitegevom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134664280/2784719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijexibat.mywebcommunity.org/biosafety_and_bioethics_in_biotechnology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munelexogetajax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437313/4522594.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/f5964385-4238-4718-828f-2767290cb79d/why_isnt_my_hot_tub_turning_on.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e1d5fa5a-667c-4d22-bb72-2ec96b4ed0f7.filesusr.com/ugd/01f30d_c52ae1eba99b4be4a08c8ab75ea08718.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d431b647-b69c-4187-937b-9b54cb3efff5/ley_de_educacin_del_estado_de_puebla_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiruweditivunaw.myartsonline.com/bachianas_brasileiras_no_5_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eee44bc3-d396-40ed-af72-a0426d4bc00d/xalamokubiwazezafuvafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c3a7a64c-5591-430b-94d7-c2eadfdf3523.filesusr.com/ugd/966478_f862f921d8774ee9926aeebfddc2545e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc010c70-835d-4b56-8cb0-1e1bda7cab64.filesusr.com/ugd/fb576b_3c6f25559dfe4954a8d06a1c8b5f35c8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cafe1ce6-7abe-439f-a1a3-65fdeb0b1817/why_does_my_fitbit_not_work_on_a_treadmill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8459f3b7-b2e6-4b58-af31-5f29adf293b7.filesusr.com/ugd/a68450_bbbca33582154c45bf23821aae5a6a0a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7abbf572-6989-4614-8246-9d5ba34cd238.filesusr.com/ugd/af841b_143138cd33e544d6bcde4ce3ec3bc4ee.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9cfae44-5fb1-4a79-976d-9893595d74af/homeworx_hw-150pvr_qam_firmware_download.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_off0000f07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07C 5456 bytes
SHA-256: e2fc0f51e00e8804f46989f39ee2b532fb0246d04b1c99af270a73291b2e719f
font_01_sfnt_off00010309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10309 11472 bytes
SHA-256: 58cea6bcb29e29b1a51662a87f0a05c3673d2ff0d27b69f7a535cc808f98baca