Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 480db7ac1daee421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-05-01 08:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 070131365c6c82f7ffed4ce7e3b8428d SHA-1: 2201fadbf2fe4f1488a6c1ef2201fbda2bde9f44 SHA-256: 480db7ac1daee4211903c8bfddc7ca669d147f88d4a62ed661c65f64479d2bc3
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+long+does+spectra+s1+last In PDF document text
    • http://freedate18.xyz/geometry_dash_2.11_free_download_pc_windows_108jtdr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416132/normal_6050ee9c18e5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomyimperial.ru/karambit_doppler_guideorc26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484994/normal_604eda17541ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450504/normal_600ed1cb32f37.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/e37605aa-1e12-4e73-8998-d92b074d9494/a_lesson_before_dying_sparknotes_chapter_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/83f77be7-8889-4d2e-9fa5-32768ed321e8/big_green_egg_smoked_chicken_wings_recipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b49eff6a-4f3e-42de-897b-e065a9af6c37/what_is_momentum_call_in_stock_market.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ea9429b-0332-4ee6-bb75-ab9535b56c99.filesusr.com/ugd/e2f7e1_18425a1f866d4a26acf6c68700cf11f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea4b5ec8-5d9a-4d09-8165-33868a064bec/pigima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2e5200f-5ba1-4c96-a8c6-c0800d8106f7/39994707286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuxemozoxabonag.onlinewebshop.net/969378594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b9b086bb-db5c-4c47-b99c-4ca3d8c772c1.filesusr.com/ugd/c090b7_c503779cda124e769dcf5f54e6e924df.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/11bf2df0-abc9-43fd-ba53-2ce325a962f0/dungeons_and_dragons_master_guide_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogiwexor.myartsonline.com/applied_corporate_finance_unsw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9d349da1-218b-4b59-9e37-2a90cab56d40.filesusr.com/ugd/de9003_092bc14e6b5f4038b0c54355f5ed1f28.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/468b2d66-e876-4b19-b0f5-9fed72edde58/garmin_oregon_600_battery_pack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6196a4e6-b3b5-4a85-a139-4ec84e0a53d9.filesusr.com/ugd/d01287_ad708f1a82c34a57af1e4e1b970adb0e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c370dac7-4848-4fa0-a6df-94361299e8ba.filesusr.com/ugd/fa6303_adcbab310b8245b18ec62e9b4dad49b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb44fb1b-34ca-43d2-95a5-f067ae738312/pulesuji.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_off0000f11b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11B 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 02c912e67290a4b93cd2496acaf670c2fdc16e3034486a85d9ff3905a6d55170
font_01_sfnt_off00010371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10371 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 630770b6196ddb22c8c95516a4c3e4ab18480d3ffbb9c00e6429ebe70276f325