Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5532478a0c762098…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-04-02 05:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: ef9475b913dfeaac9181ef8409c4c79a SHA-1: 2a01ccf728661a35c51e3b772cb60e97bef91fcf SHA-256: 5532478a0c762098a4b88041d1afc82584f3564d54d33312f6c9b3230b7e823c
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with critical heuristics indicating it functions as a redirector to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or a scam. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection, aligning with T1059.007 if JavaScript was used internally for obfuscation or execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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=is+keto+diet+better+than+intermittent+fasting In PDF document text
    • http://zanodopowe.sportsontheweb.net/16940107988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pidawudimo.scienceontheweb.net/advertisement_format_for_class_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pategazikiw/chfhhf6/phenol-_sulfuric_acid_method_in_microplate_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gimanoretev/jf0Eia2/pugakubinikinomisepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/foturozav/cUiigdQ/cool_fonts_keyboard_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lanuniwa/31kheDr/metro_boomin_sound_engineer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491688/normal_60216e6b51166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409420/normal_6023e2dfcc043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepovili/eVGhaE6/ladogovekejixanebixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451927/normal_5ff52305b290b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380691/normal_5ff4dfbb78513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josumewemuzob.getenjoyment.net/is_arris_compatible_with_spectrum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunakijabe.sportsontheweb.net/how_to_count_to_100_in_spanish_by_tens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dunokufimove/jjfhdib/63011912017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nugutobudan/ciqjjcB/36539135553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xufaribo/jckWhfp/funny_message_sms_ringtone_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407306/normal_5fd9009d7b563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawusewi.sportsontheweb.net/renewable_energy_sources_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vunebegawiwa/ihb8rgh/buminutatasebamena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavakedego.scienceontheweb.net/pedese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mepamoso.sportsontheweb.net/pharma_quality_control_interview_questions_and_answers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giwosesupalu.medianewsonline.com/abdominal_muscles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jipogidara/1thePSA/gold_farmers_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://walaratetev.epizy.com/how_to_fix_a_morton_water_softener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejagimu.rf.gd/present_tenses_exercises_with_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jemukiguwuw.myartsonline.com/58585763481.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_off0000f7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C6 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 67b04373fce733a596c0232e48d5b02f94f09d34d52679eb38dfd31f68f69d26
font_01_sfnt_off00010a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A10 10792 bytes
SHA-256: a960a927b6c58dc3a6d48c2c7e76801789ff9a34af37a7dbc4638731220393f6