Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41ba95a3184cde44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-03-05 08:14:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 24f4a864eb82bc74528b9a31851f1813 SHA-1: aa8be583035412e024e65f06764695df7bcdca9a SHA-256: 41ba95a3184cde44138c71e2b5b0fe37634a10a79fa3a59b77f19588ae27e7ab
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms and redirector infrastructure. One URL, https://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=economic+vocabulary+crossword+worksheet+2, is flagged as malicious. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a deliberate attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

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/wix?keyword=economic+vocabulary+crossword+worksheet+2 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mixaluwekitu/ghgG0gd/photo_video_maker_with_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mafowixodi/L0igjhT/the_horus_heresy_drop_assault_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomejafir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134725936/nukabikodes-galogupaxa-dopixodoketim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pujapipiwat/Fjgjhgd/facebook_lite_for_pc_free_download_softonic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://govuxojikasumot.scienceontheweb.net/vuralofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najuxobetejip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265875/ripigavawadova_bejitow_negimesadasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebofimanigi.sportsontheweb.net/the_5_love_languages_book_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/boguzivipel/ejhbPHg/xasoluvafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/simikitivo/gaVWhcO/vufalisawasexajijigidawal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malanefire.sportsontheweb.net/simulation_with_arena_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suxeredevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134000194/c682f812146ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuzaguwimera.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134492670/bujulo_vuremivexu_likowepepemul.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/3a4b6b18-cfbc-4a53-bf3c-7191f633d6a8/tisadisavadunaremokeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a009ac4-5770-49f2-ae16-4ce107243443.filesusr.com/ugd/59deca_dc50692f456d4232a65e74aed8e7897f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://48bf584d-d56c-45cf-b4f3-c1c05dce5274.filesusr.com/ugd/3f4b99_80da0e9e4a20479eb0c533d6b92ba78d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd39396c-1c79-423b-8a6d-db47f133bcba/unofficial_game_of_thrones_cookbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://44034db3-6cdd-4729-adf3-7ccd6afcf354.filesusr.com/ugd/9fe9cc_1fbeac66aafe41e781c0b6619c180bfd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://72dfff08-f6cb-4f5d-aaac-ebe71175d6a6.filesusr.com/ugd/c268f7_3394bbb976584de5b42758e3a1186e10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01bb8029-45ab-42a0-bb45-a171513ff2ee/how_to_analyze_stocks_to_buy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c910c7f3-bdcb-481c-8b45-499e019fc917/vw_jetta_dsg_transmission_fluid_change.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_off0000ebde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDE 5728 bytes
SHA-256: b2c28f9c786825a4c445f1ba5f6d259a50c9e041fd54c5eea30365c244e57024
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF50 9832 bytes
SHA-256: 3f09f8806bc3bc274e11aa61652965245445d604b6edb08962e9e96a1204b684