Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53c7359554ed85de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-05-22 06:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 025b9a00c47e60e101041ca8ea2f9023 SHA-1: 9281122e056f779043fa1b5c06281be4f1fe2c70 SHA-256: 53c7359554ed85de8b2c3ff4b68e6567c0a3520fdebbf6ab43a7eaeed43d6d34
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting and redirecting to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The primary malicious URL identified is https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=asterix+and+obelix+at+the+olympic+games+pc. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this file, likely used as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/strik?utm_term=asterix+and+obelix+at+the+olympic+games+pc In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481053/normal_605d7e58b0265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370286/normal_604ec6054048d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465398/normal_602553389c08d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374380/normal_5fda81c567755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewobefavewekog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367647/gubovitawijuwo_sorine_savuwikafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4504791/normal_5ff979f6e9048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384152/normal_5fde71364c3f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483349/normal_5ff59607de84b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456166/normal_602f10f6eefaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393204/normal_605ab76a894e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vedefagam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814874/bevojibavofonazetoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486190/normal_5ffea84a18c97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jixobufasov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134324480/1397488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491688/normal_6029738931d70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490974/normal_602f0b7700a94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4493200/normal_5fe13ed31f1e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waguxezemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134703223/lonuravurabepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365551/normal_5ffa39e8a9a13.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/7d3561d1-b219-4c27-8415-03711a239c9f/13951864382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixisariwulo/79535504502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kozewuposoridil/38684404082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92393add-4a90-4038-84b6-a2b8f57fb10e/fuvopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rizezobabub/luwubuvanavubati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b827ab9-1a2f-4b4d-b935-c4b0bc32c7d1/blender_2.81_video_editing_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/palikuvexake/kixenidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/699d0591-494e-47ff-a81a-571efdfd1578/76196917015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c20c643-331b-4b3b-be1d-5bc70b2935c0/kenmore_quiet_comfort_humidifier_not_working.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_off0000f2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FE 5784 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8fc8efbe2d44dd6bd2035c985f17264224723ba1fe8607921888dd49aac961
font_01_sfnt_off0001068a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068A 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 073603865531c563f3a48c7d78f0d387f8b197f3d10bdc6a6f3c7b17f1ac89fc