Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 378452fa4e9f0284…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-03-20 03:23:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 8c6110aefe2acb973aef3ed71fc8d78d SHA-1: fa70aac0ca3d0a0c4ce12baeabf32897651626bf SHA-256: 378452fa4e9f02849086d86838a78f5399b7865290773f853f3fbd5a50e9a168
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to known malicious redirectors and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/strik?utm_term=langston+hughes+i+too+sing+america+tone In PDF document text
    • http://zagozogenef.sportsontheweb.net/machine_learning_for_beginners_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xonejalevesezom.sportsontheweb.net/49149201395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zememor.sportsontheweb.net/fusebofezesijunori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup666.site/curso_de_ingles_intensivo_houston_txmm24q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ribavid.medianewsonline.com/manual_led_samsung_32_pulgadas_smart_tv_un32eh5300_full_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermagazforsale1.xyz/molasivivigibunovaxilofirnb2z5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibuzikufaje.mygamesonline.org/technical_interview_question_for_ece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhenskiizhurnal.ru/20466589108pl04j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salexutoxor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134761189/264d810434a0312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugolufixa.mywebcommunity.org/julius_caesar_modern_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razovifizekojo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134439397/2087723.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/f4267091-f1c1-4a79-a9b2-c52a85bca6eb/23780088664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7dd84131-c5ba-4627-8559-7aa3c2d1d17f/fingerstyle_guitar_songs_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xobeminal.atwebpages.com/tixitaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malejubu.myartsonline.com/what_happened_at_the_end_of_the_story_the_veldt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuwutowamig.myartsonline.com/gujot.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_off0000ed43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED43 5120 bytes
SHA-256: da3d5a2aa53ef2380a00c10c8225c413cde96b55a1f3e1f5def9be5a31e5dec8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8E 10740 bytes
SHA-256: b1bbc6d7c3bb212676fd4071000a01acbb7c0b87fe692978a89653566ab99ae8

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