Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fcf4a9c8369cfba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-02-24 05:12:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b277138de87ec5387048f962ba4a0849 SHA-1: b9be3657dcb461c2cddc7b91ce11716a0cd57ffc SHA-256: 3fcf4a9c8369cfbab66b1b2bd44db87fcc852926be7e71e0e8f7438d0db95f60
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagging it as a redirector link farm and a potential phishing document. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to academic papers, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting numerous external links. These links lead to disposable domains and known malicious redirectors, indicating an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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/123?utm_term=gate+electrical+engineering+question+paper+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://test123test.xyz/79382514002eqjjr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domolijetokuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738933/zekidazenuji-budugoraxa-bobiwuni-nixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zulatobi/tjiNxjd/subway_surfers_hack_apk_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-doska4.club/41905576707vqq36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasudelile.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012727/976153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bubiwalifeda/aSh5Fhj/3d_pinball_game_download_for_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/susiwebuvowo/dibPpqY/nintendo_switch_online_code_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakofanagobogan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135386994/03c6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazapaxinu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134475358/furewoku-jiwikezifotufi-zixixagalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigojakumadofef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606024/8f3032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-odejda.com/cordless_phone_silent_mode4hgbv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sayfelengs.space/i_wish_grandpas_never_died_acoustic_chordsi2whd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasuliwipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452824/1178073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslim-italiaufficiale.site/6862791139145cmy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aazzzry.space/google_sheets_standard_deviation_if6sw06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tilapenudulaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607943/cb38f324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xitnet.fun/the_bourne_legacy_dual_audio_300mb5i4bm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vulopinuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164419/sajebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rexawalifutox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458468/gexuvaxawiguwod-zozajuw-nudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busforpay.online/gekuwagav6oqrf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merishwheelrecords.com/62007856136xka4s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC4 5620 bytes
SHA-256: a2190dc611c30f37ca3d4f15420b7adc47dcf351f2e2c62cd0ab9c87c9151f43
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF6 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 27d376c689f847ef683133ee7ba19f5ff1c95fac88b3de19eaeecbfbb2a0d642
font_02_sfnt_off000134c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34