Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5492630928871a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2020-12-21 02:20:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: e193f289aeb2e8dbafa2481e5319b074 SHA-1: f1c179e7547038a5119aa2f01389f43cb09f1570 SHA-256: 5492630928871a5fe04933229988946f46b9016c004d6ceff2406120e544f9c0
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself is weaponized to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://traffine.ru/strik?utm_term=raid+heroes+sword+and+magic+hack In PDF document text
    • https://gililizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770310/levin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewobefavewekog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367647/fujejujezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejiwapofiji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134699364/c72d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392877/normal_5fcda5a1824a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanovupejofo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134580977/bebosone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fofafobef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349457/6dd0d2cd6179670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifawekujiki/return_man_zombies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/matogapibelifiv/47572555479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jejulurowev/puzoniwasujimalinalituji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc35270bdb33045eed1c2ec/t/5fcef26f68c18617d405b3f9/1607398000829/zabozupamelepedad.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00010c62.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10C62 18152 bytes
SHA-256: bfccdd20c9645fe0153518d56654f8af8ee20abb4e74d5935df64947e9798f08
font_00_sfnt_off0000c930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC930 2856 bytes
SHA-256: 2cdd336d4ad4698270d9077a3b8ade5aca6d4decd0916d5d918882b18b5a1806
font_01_sfnt_off0000d35b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD35B 5484 bytes
SHA-256: d88aabdaff37a4acfea3edde2218dde596d41c4db1c45161f794ada3277bf74f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5EF 11416 bytes
SHA-256: e3e885c9b4debb0feee17e26021ba3de25905e2c78c1b2d9abd30b110ef66513