Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36ef019c8abca459…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-03-23 15:37:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3111eed0d6f6bb5d63659a1b2653fceb SHA-1: c4d9d7fdd8bec30e35936d332e51117bb29c3422 SHA-256: 36ef019c8abca459d4b1c51c696676adea173c0342a77db28a5c5474b777c663
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

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://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=cetyl+alcohol+msds+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zilibadokaji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680781/829325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soxiwavarado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437421/6010185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490367/normal_60219c3cebc98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482415/normal_6006f95a359e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383921/normal_60038bd926851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://459fb65c-52af-4c88-885a-43a44fbeaf25.filesusr.com/ugd/6a7407_af8be7cd8fda46bcaec80eb6c226ec3d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ecab545c-19d2-4654-b6ac-fb8b9749f5ba.filesusr.com/ugd/e5412a_91b0c5a4ae934f6b8963089f2a69756e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://66f9c2bc-82a6-463d-9ccd-9c94d3d8805e.filesusr.com/ugd/b361c6_09189ae01ed54396bc5c10bbb62689b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://koxosam.rf.gd/font_awesome_pro_stylesheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8c285b57-3156-47ce-881b-df665acc117b.filesusr.com/ugd/8d46c2_a780a0b5cd0449a5b08a90fe5cfae8ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fozikabev.epizy.com/aguacate_hass_colombia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5902ff30-e651-486c-ac37-3e8383bfa78f.filesusr.com/ugd/f35da0_744b6c2248e94f20a0041ab37d06afd0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eda93683-a6ca-45e9-8056-ca7adea7f1dc.filesusr.com/ugd/d655db_7841a38671cc404a8c007f36e4ce9667.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d17f4099-ecc1-42b1-9c73-51521793457c.filesusr.com/ugd/4a2613_5d2d6b8e9d914d1ba24080135371593c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pafomuwi.epizy.com/vizio_sound_bar_speaker_replacement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f1158f2-e44e-4cac-991a-806210d1dc3e.filesusr.com/ugd/e4a8e1_e0dbca815900441e845d7ea593e1c2e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://74df6fe0-557b-4e47-8461-f2df536053d0.filesusr.com/ugd/4dcf4e_12e5dbcaa1cc4dd5accd419874dd5e8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://71f68c9c-1037-483c-a0ca-f268b7ddd3c8.filesusr.com/ugd/87fdc7_dea4823ed88e45a9865a4c502f91bd7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wexadelovatapox.rf.gd/texas_apportioned_plates_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1094d5c0-a920-47c7-a1de-7e2d56a92d84.filesusr.com/ugd/47b1e8_6070405631a746a69a9898eb1f6ad42b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b00f38ea-0d13-4519-ab0f-1253f0d03ca0.filesusr.com/ugd/289c5e_67381287889945c7983b4377ceff8ac7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2d2b1dae-c014-4902-97e6-c3f1d56915cd.filesusr.com/ugd/70e5f7_1cd581611f7040e48fe51810ce0ce06e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rugilunu.epizy.com/43744246883.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_off00010c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4B 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 06ba5eae5db456af522e7c34947ac862903ae5b8f110c9cd0e1fda055396b155
font_01_sfnt_off00011e3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E3A 12980 bytes
SHA-256: 011fd38c9a6416534976cd547e413ccddb0f1ea0be1a9402454d81b42acf47f6