Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5489be2fe316095c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.3 KB Created: 2021-03-17 10:59:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e6065823faa8cb4d102576d938e34f42 SHA-1: edccc970b8038236807b1c8ddd96502c23c1244d SHA-256: 5489be2fe316095cc1a7ccb41fc5b88c455ace45384a4f3925d7e15cdfc7616b
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures to phishing sites or malware downloaders, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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/123?utm_term=calibre+drm+removal+plugin+mac In PDF document text
    • https://tinuwese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135300683/3363c0698d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemudebudejel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134718551/151a8628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bisulalu/ijjaihY/vuwaxopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratopavitakam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134460251/fetabebor-lunobabadumiz-bujiladirife-vozutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasabegimukug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265340/seziboziz_viwafokuxeji_gidurukapijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefenotufawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775800/8ddb252c36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nojamatisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384142/zejijixegafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/foxidagon/hrgfVgd/fox_sports_go_app_roku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawemewi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747996/dibibozat-kosipibexituxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vowipolijej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713390/rokubufibe_belulivam_vefoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neranoliva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266014/motufomotanivi_bezutarurirun_lawejiwosekilul_mevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nufewaxitobazat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748461/8255037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawabupabazokiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695668/jujeduwizexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodexozemusokut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999246/a93a468bbbf1.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/f71d774e-b2d3-408b-b13e-8b736a18d8d3/zozamizoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5db4d274-ff57-4ced-8b3f-a97789bc6171/how_to_remove_toner_from_brother_hl-2270dw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a99dc14c-cb46-4937-b262-cffde0311eef/47204684028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3cd90755-372c-4c1b-96be-947dc9047af2/what_does_not_belong_game_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac80c186-64ef-4fc2-9cb1-d6d764038cc3/how_to_treat_dog_mange_at_home.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_off00017588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17588 5320 bytes
SHA-256: df955938dbe9ff19ff85f9735f44dcb52037a3c3ec00728cf2d0746a3a90614b
font_01_sfnt_off00018787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18787 11632 bytes
SHA-256: 6de765cc0e8b9c2ea87577305ff8c1e7609f58ceda34737f1d20c8927c2d1dc7