Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 331e942f1f7e9320…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-05-18 01:35:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1e2cced3112e39612dc5b1a22e94a92c SHA-1: c524f4881f0f77284ec41e36e88fcf6c8b723419 SHA-256: 331e942f1f7e9320ed05709a52658ebe473fe76488229973b87b3b55cc2f632c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lead users to potentially harmful external sites.

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+typeracer In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383568/normal_5fd2cf614320f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445128/normal_60198ed66e1e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowemuvirota.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136089617/7182950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuberexuwaxif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134501439/4699774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedujidiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352610/bisos_desezim_peluvasaboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492580/normal_604f9028631d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jisuxewaxem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857679/gisinidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426421/normal_6014809d55b7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ligapixoxos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134378271/1081088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403143/normal_602d87e5badb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381759/normal_605d9cdde2f8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455399/normal_5fcaa23a718fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454049/normal_5fcf53422a88c.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/f435bb7c-816b-462c-9e7f-4b7d9cb4ffa8/wetagogolesikurowomun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e479236-d974-41a1-94c9-bbf49f902c27/what_happens_after_a_depression_economy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f2c9702-63e3-4027-95e4-faec62b1835b/verubukoxajujedabagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48d15358-b485-472c-9669-7648f50e3ba9/ucf_electronics_1_lab_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65805e7b-457a-4350-8d97-9701a425e83c/hp_officejet_7110_cartridge_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19967efc-fd84-434e-9997-c5e39ffa6e8b/what_does_the_word_araby_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5ce8328-2951-41e1-b2fe-656fbaaa6974/85088436635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b7c7c54-f3f3-4f15-805d-78d24d5b6f07/how_to_cancel_my_planet_fitness_subscription.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_off0000f8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AC 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 23b3233d8a51e02b811cab86f21bf3a4e6760649b486d43b3275aefbd8b815c1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A16 10756 bytes
SHA-256: eb62cf3b62e6cfcf90d43c077f4eccab8581d45df108e1710e0191d5ae8d6c79