Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35f5bb8aacace5ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-03-27 15:18:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 7035e3440cb90296643f46d30aa23826 SHA-1: 08d6bc104a3c8bd11f7da7ceddb8012e61005a93 SHA-256: 35f5bb8aacace5ef81a898bad4e0de7052b1276d431f05b202e43ac25d2299f0
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as malicious, including a redirector link and a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=integrated+coordinated+science+textbook+pdf', likely serve to phish users or lead them to further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics point to a clear intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2C 5288 bytes
SHA-256: c48ab84fea8ee487a7d294239d67969d98b3034ecc1ff61f0aa5660b83476e13
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2D 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 181d81ad6aeeffa858e8879b6a0d6518c4708cf5e93a748b359ebe2d2e2978da
font_02_sfnt_off00012399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12399 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3