Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b9ada0a4c9c71f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-03-08 00:40:55 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 885c1751c5f9bcd16f0d3b7cd3e30663 SHA-1: 5d5a48bf4b28f39e2fd39da5377eaa96299c2213 SHA-256: 3b9ada0a4c9c71f638ed5ba486992534240bc75ff5617097d7769a32ff7f6f0f
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains a significant number of embedded links. Several of these links lead to known malicious redirectors or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or link-farming campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to reading stock charts, which is likely a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
    URL https://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to.read+stock+charts In PDF document text
    • https://xuxasogunoniku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856570/bubamiw-lamige-jikupoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vijibasotaxeja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135990507/deges-dudewumefuxutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lebuvowune.getenjoyment.net/how_to_activate_iphone_without_sim_card_no_wifi_no_itunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vifiboreb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349596/4752847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450140/normal_5ff1c2ab64a12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386822/normal_600ddc3c2171f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimipesetasezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017520/zewariwa-batuzab-wuzimut-kokagonajig.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/4012ce80-4c72-4215-a9df-21c630f00adf/kobilivumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b53611e3-51f7-48c8-974f-2d3b642b23ca/what_is_elements_of_design_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5e446c31-fcb6-4427-a178-91ee45bbff8b.filesusr.com/ugd/4e76b8_4a90176af9f540b2a9ffb0257b309c5c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb602bd7-3c56-483e-9846-27e01adc2d41/english_to_bengali_dictionary_download_for_pc_offline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3f5765b5-411c-4b28-96d1-a1e3b219bcee.filesusr.com/ugd/ca847e_e0f5359371334b77b34ab17881af338d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c52d2918-ba33-4b2b-ab19-9fd21ce7b281/34497095667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gubadif.myartsonline.com/89880546959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://952d9f4b-853a-4e85-af28-23c4d489d487.filesusr.com/ugd/8db125_194768cb37e641d7891392551d201155.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xenezipulugiji.atwebpages.com/kimizene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://86146b48-cf95-488a-b5a0-22832f4589a6.filesusr.com/ugd/3b4eee_a9c124c5ea21484d935e2d6de72f06a5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://adc0bc6f-2b4d-4951-bce0-9128d215fa34.filesusr.com/ugd/5ea4d5_cffdd8ec9edd43eda8d7d1780038dbba.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000dde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE7 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 31ede0ec52b03cea19e4332641797d09219d05a8267cc1820f8e0158c3062776
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF77 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 13dd9a69d97072c288fb08b086593c054f99966d326ceabac20569b2f88eb5d5