Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3621403a6e1def7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-04-05 10:36:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 3b96ad3586191eca4b178ff338aa65b5 SHA-1: 7495f5dc6957cddae631b51ef8cdd6f6e1a7cbf8 SHA-256: 3621403a6e1def7cca6c2c25240c5016d3a40a4ec2bf9fe709cb5ea3127622bf
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, suggesting an attempt to hide its true malicious intent, which is likely to lure users to malicious sites via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=ancient+history+book+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • https://finowizefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383614/momed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sererewaxux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134903335/mikolupevil-nemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wizugelavuri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325487/wopiwovefogiwor-mizixivudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410418/normal_5ffc4c74cb9ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4402724/normal_5feff784a867a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454054/normal_6047d6a551d32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovuzaxaf.medianewsonline.com/31461420039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikiduxa.mywebcommunity.org/learning_spanish_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xupodidif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739682/7682782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nukapag.getenjoyment.net/shear_force_and_bending_moment_equations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nageramuvepom.mywebcommunity.org/android_developer_fundamentals_version_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403948/normal_6034fb7ccc5bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366947/normal_5fdb594d17b62.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/66e99158-1807-476b-a302-34cb21630fa5/80_longwood_lake_road_oak_ridge_nj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ebe6129c-899a-4187-9e84-a480f8dfa874/rawusevadiwaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9294dc8-5ff1-4829-84fc-413a1a4347f9/taking_sides_clashing_views_on_global_issues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naxesabefadufu.atwebpages.com/zunekafoxija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/37ae8a53-42ab-4692-85a5-64bdd27492f4/baropabukumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3fda1f6c-1c03-4806-8b88-ed309515bb51/prometheus_unbound_summary_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9ff863d8-d2cf-46cf-9a4f-8ce7a52743dc/masterbuilt_sportsman_elite_propane_smoker_single_door.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e22ec3f6-6f27-468e-9acc-185897482949/how_to_factory_reset_samsung_jitterbug_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cebb864d-2039-4e06-ba42-76498cebfd58/united_healthcare_credentialing_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/910ce86d-841c-4c94-b0f6-7c5aad4e0b4d/how_to_build_a_straw_man.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_off000101d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D9 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 9cd1135741634cf80078dc7662643382b0339b5d2c358c727c29078046f725ac
font_01_sfnt_off0001150f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150F 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 65dd7ed59f74c3f9ecc7958aae41157b47ea1a5fdda6fd7d46f0720604a003ab