Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31a67b1bfa829dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-03-25 10:24:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 40de0c020cf2eeefb86046f68b755004 SHA-1: cc0470006dfaff3f6b1a29c06599c7baeb154909 SHA-256: 31a67b1bfa829dfcbd017d12c3f89796a3c4c1f3da97ce1c80fa55db0d601bf8
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags a URL leading to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/award?keyword=building+information+modeling+pdf+espa%25C3%25B1ol In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388421/normal_60592f1d70f6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italywow.info/bully_apk_data_apkpure8y6pr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sezitoxonuga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886233/neretimu_kufota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482853/normal_603e326dc0b4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibkreactiva2020.com/iso_31010hzw95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogatuzutixu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134684840/601e97fd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vugesajovor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265649/resalaj_kuzava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413457/normal_5fe4d32315c3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erogancolumbia.site/crowdy_head_surf_reportc8c4s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jebokizez/dafovoxosusuxedivawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d451e762-8e00-4155-9971-9512d28d2528.filesusr.com/ugd/b52961_ce11a977abf04c539c66ab1b9d35ae5b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9370005b-87d8-49d8-b27c-18dce193a2f1.filesusr.com/ugd/52ea04_91a48f6711054060af0a34994535eed3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://976edc35-935c-46de-9e6e-e225dbc25668.filesusr.com/ugd/0829d8_d7b7b132fdb14bfc8c940eb685cba9a9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d1897088-ef6e-4b60-8303-910b4b551fc1.filesusr.com/ugd/4cfbbd_397431b01b714e8c8b852f6c4f8b4575.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1416a32c-f91c-4ec3-9c10-bfdf610c7df7.filesusr.com/ugd/76de1a_7451f2a4d04647b88d1ca3096a3fed77.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lolijexejomak/beyond_531_1.4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5f90d536-2a72-4461-adff-280afd3056cb.filesusr.com/ugd/27c394_741eaf44b78f4a38912a3c89cc0def03.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sisaxu/generation_of_antibody_diversity.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_off0000ef1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1F 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 32f792d3f9bc340395dcff3f7bca949ac42ccb7a77648ece5348fec61fd76b20
font_01_sfnt_off000101e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E8 12320 bytes
SHA-256: feebe34ce8c3d03a961fd2fb118e42b2981d0a22c6700ba010ba8000f0be1caf