Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 453d5431d648de6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-05-19 15:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e231c7bc367701fe5a24af42ad878435 SHA-1: bb982da62455b703cda6761ed27de26b8d72aa43 SHA-256: 453d5431d648de6f81bf446a5895dfb72b10b19b69455fedd0a2ae7c43f605f0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a mass of external links, many of which are designed to appear as legitimate documents but are likely part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The primary malicious indicator is the redirection URL `https://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=worm+farm+instructions+manual`, which is flagged as a high-risk SEO redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

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
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=worm+farm+instructions+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410714/normal_5fcd2fa85d70f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tijoramamuguko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135390581/53aea940c8f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wobereresexo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606335/060e85c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momobamuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302987/a208987e21841c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495550/normal_5ff3633937a30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikufotoxatufik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458503/6682989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sosuxivi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136056733/3696516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477910/normal_601a7ee7785bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefogazasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880183/nomemitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulurevipad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349864/musaredoda-dutire-ferejafukala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuselufuzo/android_file_transfer_debug_mode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xowasosuf/calendrio_2020_cdr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tuletivotarupu/cakewalk_vst_plugin_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixuduwonifa/vilomolagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fomudebipefasu/poretimugaworej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mafavuzenoliki/16072916117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kefefetafij/walleye_fishing_guides_in_tennessee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zupenafud/65614139918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rovuweraja/mcculloch_pro_mac_610_chainsaw_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuruvapozixix/tp-link_wpa4220_av500_powerline_wifi_extender.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buponuwebi/vufonadixitumebifedubo.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_off0000ea2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2E 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 793fe6bdc2dda079e0c3b4c2356236d58411c7ce9c4b7c75045ff613c0817a64
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB46 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 12804e8a540496586b6a55cd103df32d5ecb7198e3f80a0877877c083bdb477e