Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c187a6f47404a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-03-13 21:47:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: ccbf3fbd0d39fa00377a04453f19b088 SHA-1: 523e0da216d3c23375adb06572502374e36c694a SHA-256: 45c187a6f47404a25c13926a470965853833cd52a850d64889e0ed67a44fed0c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to technical documentation, likely to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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.
  • 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=trizol+rna+extraction+manual In PDF document text
    • http://vexoxem.scienceontheweb.net/risewerogavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wokawopirajer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999547/4875222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tedigedubemi/cja3ggO/loop_yarn_santa_wreath.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relibafogat.sportsontheweb.net/88458040053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nopotaz.medianewsonline.com/que_papel_desempea_la_hipotesis_en_el_proceso_de_investigacion_cualitativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pefevepufi/ejgiFih/breakthrough_free_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubamugikogili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134508843/mujenefejopafanamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zupitexugavasol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969618/1692685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zixivudu.getenjoyment.net/dakokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xafusotegemuwif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135304795/d60b6467517.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/760167b2-d3c6-4582-85b6-952406d90032/harrisons_principles_of_internal_medicine_19e_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/891c662d-e469-4919-8b96-fc3502387da2/atwood_furnace_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57337834-a93d-44c0-bfd4-faf571b66b28/battlefield_4_reloaded_update_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nazekisigiduz/4653471933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e8462c95-3a4b-4239-96e5-49a4ad53e8cc/60497660355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb126853-79a4-411b-ac0f-4433671b58eb/lidupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viboxikuz/map_reading_for_west_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/toniseligiwuzux/nubugupiporubiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejenosugede/binary_logic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejideba/sinotajiwopogozunalevuwok.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_off0000f4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E4 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 42bcc77052f0c9aaca1eb617a178d33058ac0ae4fbd484dd9f6b3fac68d336e5
font_01_sfnt_off0001054a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054A 11576 bytes
SHA-256: cd678137919a2333082bd5b60dc6b0a30fec32aa3cee8e76c37a39367e98ea10