Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513562120e5d4789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-04-02 07:24:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 09f4e3ce0bdb7aed5cb7504c9b232b15 SHA-1: bbb48ce4b042f66e8d029372311b23fb0f796653 SHA-256: 513562120e5d47896fc4f5dda01adef1e58523f10724bedd964202f8421d2781
344 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document exhibits multiple critical heuristic firings indicating malicious intent, including acting as a redirector to known malicious infrastructure and attempting to lure users with account recovery or payment redirection scams. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the document's structure and the nature of the lures strongly suggest it is designed to exploit user trust for financial gain or credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise 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/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+find+google+account+recovery+page In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444853/normal_604d1b2ae3352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496580/normal_604a4a8204a98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneitshop.info/222704945508x4pk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubstore.pro/tajegijulisupurulunegelieh2yb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409248/normal_603ede353e0d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/depadukat/ejbGzFV/40693374109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501980/normal_603962ced7597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vbnmcxz.xyz/mezanuvarorerivskpi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lagazowasobo/fiiqjbf/pokemon_wallpaper_4k_ultra_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulopoboxefon.scienceontheweb.net/kalnirnay_2020_marathi_calendar_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404133/normal_5fd26e6d4ea85.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/0a5b0b82-e321-41a7-874f-c70a28c7a65e/40041811146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenares.myartsonline.com/vizopogejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cda5e514-e9b1-42b4-9c90-ca95b27e17c6/best_way_to_listen_to_music_offline_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33fe1336-4051-433c-b691-b763732126dd.filesusr.com/ugd/6c8f37_1c3c896bd4bc43a28ce72b8bc67ac7d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://06e27459-8a58-4d01-a48e-f853eab966f6.filesusr.com/ugd/55f1a0_df4007ae50b548d19ac2ddc444cc4b41.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6dc8baf6-dd1c-474a-a74d-e0d6db49d352/how_to_use_a_motorola_talkabout_walkie_talkie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://29aa9d28-cc9d-45fc-8d86-3718b5881c84.filesusr.com/ugd/74c34a_02e7f1f5504e4b18b3315d59ae28b017.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4ead469-9ce9-4bb4-b45c-43c8fa7ee1c2/mizewijimeru.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_off0000ee50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 751fd3b5a0a9ad2a4442df77d073be62428e5aeaf24497d7b321525579f6759c
font_01_sfnt_off000100c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C0 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 1ce3bf60843864ec74a04eed349d785bdd80687b7c8a173585e545c3a419db8c