Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ffc52bffc2f1361…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-05-12 09:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2d874f696e517c0efad01d576116da82 SHA-1: 22baba8eb9f247dcbaed342f8fecd61458f23abb SHA-256: 3ffc52bffc2f13611f2c9ce61c1fa72102d182a108c953a9fa8a6a2bdfad104d
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags a URL leading to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=reading+comprehension+book+grade+4+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xijivokabororix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134879859/begupowasipavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nexasolonit/OifyUih/the_impossible_quiz_2_answers_question_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419195/normal_606e601f8d2e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mijonezogiju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134308960/jirufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468554/normal_5fd6800c8ef9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagivoxiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135991060/aefc569d0345f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420013/normal_6000686f45e54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/batumozi/dxeheia/butajixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawurefeki/nw9hbha/dc_voltage_drop_calculator_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453118/normal_5fe8bdfacbea6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jugomuzuteb/6jaaryt/como_descargar_stickman_soccer_2014_para_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465709/normal_5fdefd880b798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pigajifaw/djb0Bhj/ugandan_knuckles_know_da_wae_song.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/d0774c18-79eb-43cc-8311-ca9329fc36ab/girubatejumuwududog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c78ad11-133b-4435-81d8-2d625b0659c0/xeweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9beb131f-3c34-4a74-9c21-30cd6f645e01/xenuruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5fc03c2-6ed4-414e-9a74-9e32b7a83383/how_to_calculate_the_magnitude_of_the_kinetic_frictional_force.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wolina/siximitolimogoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wegemebufojafak/bayern_munich_formation_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/16f595e9-c27b-47a9-9ea9-f072cfe4d29e/char_broil_performance_5_burner_gas_grill_lowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23aa0a63-eef1-43ad-a5d7-b42e96e5eb8f/zazofujepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3ee3bee-deac-4ff9-b184-9b13435369fe/probability_worksheet_with_answers_doc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67203d31-77b8-4182-9e00-7cd07da26b9f/gupobogivuwexujowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wupixufekijax/kemutilijora.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_off000102a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A1 5836 bytes
SHA-256: 9831088ebaffe5e97a62d569c834e33a0ec7fa88177b109b8857ab09b0520b7a
font_01_sfnt_off0001165f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165F 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 5b73e705f1e11ca0d90044b392e66822a7d34f37264d6059b787c1b05948df7a