Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eb124942dbf107d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-03-29 16:09:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: c80692801767beb6506fd9631f77ff42 SHA-1: 0db4e9a1efc56fa793be9acc1bc279a61b2d7f71 SHA-256: 3eb124942dbf107d84c3fbd1e3ae9a90f2d3da16c7c9e831c0c390cda735eeba
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm. One of the initial links directs to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=old+school+hip+hop+music+90s In PDF document text
    • http://idealicaitaly.site/walmart_grocery_app_not_loading_favoritesptrfu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vumuwuxa/LNHjije/zimolenemelutibeluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/juwafajem/S68rgcS/online_games_no_download_unblocked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homebig.space/1st_puc_statistics_textbook_answers_download6i5qy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoom-omsk.ru/the_humans_stephen_karam_scriptw370w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pemenodisoda/hj4HGQC/arcade1up_street_fighter_sale.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/ded1bfa4-5a7a-4853-9886-656e78d43300/different_kind_of_knots_and_their_uses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a581e706-3bf6-41fb-8978-ad4d4077590d.filesusr.com/ugd/afbe6b_febc9f66db6448f39087819846dbb76b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c2dbac7f-2075-4dc1-ad03-af0d0352bff2.filesusr.com/ugd/278743_bac6d3885cf445b8a27ea686dfa9714e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8206d31-21c4-4aef-9da9-e4259ded718a.filesusr.com/ugd/c2bdac_b625659163c1490193b92c61805bd75f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7286d11a-aa46-4dd6-8469-6535c1801154/wojuluvasara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4141a38b-af98-41e4-9eec-20db832eb5d7/8673338805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f039f7e9-c7fa-441d-bf3d-2f0e35d6be10.filesusr.com/ugd/80685d_11c3d540f2fb4cb5a69df18904ede196.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6594366c-f4a9-45b4-a0d9-0693a61c1271/werug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/641fbf4a-2986-4463-b524-dbe17408f873/how_to_fix_error_message_on_brother_printer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dad2878b-74c9-4a2d-abdf-abf7033ed639/the_exorcist_s3_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6e229dea-1f83-4be8-8cd3-388eabd4f5e3.filesusr.com/ugd/1cfe37_b1a27878a3df4f18b654072946361cbd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7bfbee40-04a9-4de4-96ae-99abbccd6c2b/dirajadikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0b609444-e5a2-4a7e-9779-a3c6bae51a53.filesusr.com/ugd/529dbf_85867a8d01e44c20aa0f7f0364934e7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://010f2e21-25ca-4560-806d-08cbbb7c7db1.filesusr.com/ugd/74a852_cd4d4f71309d4fb89ef96206631e8b9c.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_off000109b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B2 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 22823af081f01335263db90ddb50a947ff951e252fce9fe5a3c6f9b28881d39c
font_01_sfnt_off00011bb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB2 11184 bytes
SHA-256: fb32bd8583f35b9b87c27f5fbf795276d14383f3a9136e3717d72c23266230fa