Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dfcc7adafa251b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-04-15 10:37:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: a78d87adec79c813da66d3e680579fe0 SHA-1: 6912da5a8ae4b84128ab12563c075be679149f27 SHA-256: 3dfcc7adafa251b0d32ce0327b16e4f2a64f9aa311f576cb922082d2e6019010
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to known malicious redirectors and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or phishing campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not 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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+the+vss+button+on+ps4+headset In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nifodotiriru/gfslaV3/contour_plus_meter_lancets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vutazekerubu/fqLCjga/thor_ragnarok_song_on_bridge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likedizar.medianewsonline.com/what_is_the_second_step_of_decision_making_brainly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/poulan_chainsaw_parts_ebayti3ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuwipabobatu/dXMidhc/dragon_raja_pc_download_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bewewojiwo/ZWidjiz/wisasimuwigupewijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/norowitidot/hgHIhjC/zitiwatabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tokarikadez/ie81bge/big_bang_theory_season_13_episode_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pesamelez/jYJATNV/tusoranawotilabujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sategexarom/ihtidjj/parkour_jump_obstacle_course_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/javeduner/ifgf0gh/down_the_mountain_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arbitestpark.xyz/pudimikewogidudianxqs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/marimejerebo/space_1080p_wallpaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nosepevozux/secret_garden_music_sheet_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6cbe2f5c-748b-4bc6-b691-25a968a47885.filesusr.com/ugd/d6b5da_0490ac30236746518b719210326ccc12.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pevuwarobuvowa/63003255531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://486bfeb6-87d8-40a3-812f-3449909c9139.filesusr.com/ugd/81b904_ab909fdb5fd843179f848fb88b315018.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://587b455d-cc79-4428-8e80-a8b75ce23bca.filesusr.com/ugd/021ec8_24e145ebfb054c3c9e2faf886e15b8d4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://widifusi.myartsonline.com/85838338767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ff4d9611-e7ea-45f2-85d3-f0b464ef817f.filesusr.com/ugd/48f461_8dfd4be7425b43baaa8bbbb9a3d6f659.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b1c30c75-ab46-439a-884d-3836ae4b8a49.filesusr.com/ugd/2d1648_de2f96e723804d68889f5fc84a856af4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/baritexovopa/brother_mfc-_l2700dw_treiber.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_off0000f366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF366 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 295f7aa1519f570b94cc656a2c9c0fab78a2c19c14a08377ecfe1c6c8f8612b2
font_01_sfnt_off0001053a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053A 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 21bf8b7b0d937596412f8e40b4353b39e4fd54335eebcb68760567ac7770fd31