Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ae7e9f7e5940782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-04-03 00:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 17c9f33753b37a095c6f775991ce9c39 SHA-1: 3ecdb72fdd51f34d4b56f6e48c25bd4bc598e274 SHA-256: 3ae7e9f7e594078216694551ad516e577552a0ad2ac1a4d4b3447d69b83ad8eb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are associated with redirector infrastructure. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags a URL leading to known malicious infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites, likely disguised as legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=smoky+mountain+series+great+outdoors+smoker+replacement+parts In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448539/normal_601eaa717a0ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kojezuduw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326104/misisezetegojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xowiwive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398234/duguviko_wenidepazofa_zexudupe_zesopiduxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegoletox.medianewsonline.com/vexunevabiwabura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479921/normal_605ca9ccde432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bupusudiva/jggjiaA/bus_horn_dj_song_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482405/normal_604835ec5ed62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raxejudesezix.scienceontheweb.net/52126744684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vawudida.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134890241/89718f04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xelamoxadavas.mywebcommunity.org/ansiedade_tratamento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482847/normal_602180aaa250c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4389801/normal_5ff37b7eef53f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/reromiwo/e6axTic/mortal_kombat_11_aftermath_characters_fatalities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dikoxikikalonib.scienceontheweb.net/lamutozaliwexivubojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gutinisiv/p5jgidc/zovutakag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pajenugemin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677616/8722417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gisefezuzif/9yRl6ha/voucher_game_ff_shopee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorogudadusosej.getenjoyment.net/95641160286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jarepumemaxi.onlinewebshop.net/71196169469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirulibas.onlinewebshop.net/how_do_i_connect_my_fintie_keyboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29c49abf-05e6-4a6d-a419-d4857c4dbe09/mechanical_maintenance_engineer_jobs_in_abroad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2c04c7c-c49c-48d7-b6b4-f24eb0f7274c/20085956083.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_off0000e040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE040 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 30b24b6902f77f4940decd518cf988f58b954afdf0f50406e2f17085b9979cbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF379 11500 bytes
SHA-256: fbfab5448ccc7da972ba06879c95574e291146e9c04a3f23b520ffbd8fff082f