Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c1b62c1569edbb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-03-30 02:13:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 663a43e37527aa0470ff07ddefd9ee17 SHA-1: 5795401d5360b0e5e6332d3e41a987b0a6ff9c46 SHA-256: 4c1b62c1569edbb0703580b0fa3c41ae7c91ab384a51dec36cd5771b83c68fa8
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files. Several heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many links hosted on disposable domains. One critical heuristic specifically flags a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=academic+ielts+writing+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jisetufazuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135307323/jovudafipiso_jugus_demisukatu_xixogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mipupupomekux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712043/defowipopeli_garuwagi_wutaroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383928/normal_603e09f166c29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://favasonod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740296/xeviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485578/normal_605cdc458d81d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninuwekevap.scienceontheweb.net/cbse_class_12_sociology_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kilijosizujowo.medianewsonline.com/tawabonepisipowosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gedadekenoz.mywebcommunity.org/xutaparetidederijuzodejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veworokog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606039/fetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xomofaki.getenjoyment.net/subunugopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mofivekirupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740685/2185618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vamewufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317042/bapuvavuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xiridibokolu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379099/c4fe5301db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomaduworofa.medianewsonline.com/rosugibutenena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinorexuvon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608307/201266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudefusuze.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134628774/d194c4324f0f09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450148/normal_605b074d340e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://semowomeso.onlinewebshop.net/dwg_trueview_plot_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonanikapudidak.atwebpages.com/14372992730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa6d2f86-95e2-42cc-897e-6bbd71c3a116.filesusr.com/ugd/78daac_9db4b12bbe264bd7bf514ca99ed56c4c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://804b95bc-9ca4-448d-a094-5a8e1ff69a26.filesusr.com/ugd/99d1da_0dd68dfb15a84560887e890da1bb0339.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://02e0da19-eac5-4521-950b-4e410541bf1c.filesusr.com/ugd/516249_acc09d02c98d486abce1abc67b80fbc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://somasetowijo.myartsonline.com/rapidex_english_speaking_book_free_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CE 5236 bytes
SHA-256: cb047ca66866e8f1a3fbc8c07a2233544a51b49d1b57ac0e7dc44e9c6410b5de
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB89 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 5c76d58ac0cc5569681ee704aac31dabe360d5fdee7e091d7453f9e42899cfae
font_02_sfnt_off0001209c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176