Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c29bcec1ea638c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2020-12-17 17:39:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b50d780d69febf3bd146031437e568eb SHA-1: e7cbb19e2eecc490dfa5908bfb6b346e404dded8 SHA-256: 42c29bcec1ea638ce698262540a217a74cc221e0436b8a101bf9e41910d05e22
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for a "Monster manual 4th edition pdf". The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is used to funnel victims to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=monster+manual+4th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418166/normal_5fc0601b4c7b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximilebikunupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134875253/9314271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texitanoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739996/6166776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didekupava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163833/386fde756d2c57b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0e9e3bda9c57a97be47bf/t/5fc3536c173fb5383b0db474/1606636397238/nursing_care_plans_guidelines_for_individualizing_client_care_across_the_lifespan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbf49d03485235c86bc89af/1606371792620/88127470428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc165fda8793968640bd5e7/t/5fd17be5b0f0f842d79cea97/1607564263878/bojofagepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbf5c033c6ccf69f355c51a/1606376451984/25441002046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fasanag/fugemomubeferorezewarovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc5d7c15e8e827d42afc458/t/5fca544d758b2e22420b526f/1607095378902/mabexamorijutipinipuzipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc58d7ddf132613bbdd2249/t/5fcf9c97798354522d16a032/1607441559482/95222327447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xunilukegez/scientific_calculator_free_for_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbe057418e72e5fdb9da256/1606288763757/mi_general_augusto_pinochet_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fusidejebi/my_goal_in_life_essay.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_off0000dd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7A 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 35dc270af69d8bcb4dbc398e5284031824d32d32e5689c168a92182339fb8ba3
font_01_sfnt_off0000efa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA0 12852 bytes
SHA-256: 687ab01e76f210329e8c443990029fbdac7c863b283b810f903f845acf99b0ea