Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54bd58be3a308270…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.4 KB Created: 2021-03-16 19:28:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 05da2beae7957356d4b5168ee7d53267 SHA-1: 786a97729040a3a276187c0493a03bc49d3527ce SHA-256: 54bd58be3a308270c1fc8ec492855d4650feb6271e0d988657949c827b891a55
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, specifically flagging it as a redirector link and a link farm on disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, such as https://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=millennium+development+goals+pdf+2020, are likely used to direct users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to exploit users through malicious links, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=millennium+development+goals+pdf+2020 In PDF document text
    • http://kapunogukak.iblogger.org/is_distilling_alcohol_dangerous.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigoditibalun.mywebcommunity.org/principles_of_technical_drawing_giesecke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://card2card-perevod24.site/canadian_dental_association_infection_control_guidelines_20181miqt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://particuliers-societegenerale.xyz/886652386517iu21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diporesorojina.scienceontheweb.net/kejukikufudebapijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handler-autoscout24.com/ziludujulirakufibobolupszrov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antileqphh.site/mohawk_commercial_carpet_warrantyrov8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tibagisuminove.sportsontheweb.net/how_to_reset_firestick_remote_volume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutatit.getenjoyment.net/32365539173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://rakemexovujepez.epizy.com/describing_enlargements_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e002f83-1a49-4c18-b942-9c750984ab1a/behringer_xenyx_1204usb_mixer_12-channel_usb_audio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tawinefe.rf.gd/lusutatuborup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zifozujiwi/nipoxelezejasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xakusineba/taluwituzikefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c769b105-6edf-4322-be86-0e1cf35b68b4/motion_light_stays_on_when_cold.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://segimoto.myartsonline.com/les_journaux_algeriens_en_franais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c9b0c9dc-51ad-46ec-84b2-dbc26df53712.filesusr.com/ugd/b6f588_d4e123a8a3704a73b116b665ffc0b4eb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6bc61794-ec17-45f1-96eb-8bed4cd57308.filesusr.com/ugd/217b8a_b4d2a9dd7ee84bd9a8a6ade080d58f86.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7872bbb-44a2-4e06-9273-3c9f589c0bf5/viresogafupaderakajaxomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9e1e9198-0fe7-4103-8084-fdcc6befb8d5.filesusr.com/ugd/2f7815_1dec899c3d884180a6339ac858e97bcb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazuxujepov/damomeba.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DAF 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 5815ac5126ebd2f13161669d0326a6864c12d33f8449e0101f3eed62723e5d67
font_01_sfnt_off0001a0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A0C7 12508 bytes
SHA-256: 9787e14f614dd5854193577a1b2eef72f314e198a2b969a0a97f5b53d4d7f365
font_02_sfnt_off0001ca41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CA41 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 99ddc6f5858eb134f8024171ebe717cbd02485c31471b921a5021903b5272953