Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56b5ad75ff7784f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-02-24 15:55:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 5be81212ec500e689f905ebdcb16f126 SHA-1: 9fea7d4dc28d223e4d94427750f1f763ba89c02a SHA-256: 56b5ad75ff7784f71620efe60ad7506ccc22f9b2ec3d696e062c2c0c638e3063
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as a malicious redirector and a link farm, indicating a phishing or spam campaign. The embedded URLs, including 'https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=osha+scaffold+guardrail+requirements', are designed to lead users to potentially harmful content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the distribution of numerous links, many hosted on disposable domains or redirector services, to maximize reach.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=osha+scaffold+guardrail+requirements In PDF document text
    • https://tererenigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405956/naxaferabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bifurizikekoson.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690439/womafonefosemitugaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bigonokefexix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134518339/bewemadabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajefabavasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710755/7232433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wosipuvetot/bieTihl/vetezopibanaxeziloten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wakokozetu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307835/3647265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ragojagef/dWUrhhh/gumononetulobivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuwipabobatu/6gi47hf/samuxurivorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pogezasamu/IMjfif2/30201864622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tomubozes/irvAgj1/34311667535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372074/normal_600dc05fcc663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suranekiwexem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134698667/nefukufarovuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4458132/normal_5fe2133100d11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fezifenax/c3Hs0hb/georgia_high_school._football_scores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawagupavuraxap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134616311/lunagisikagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rukururage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968917/lipikedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nadokikado/jagc0ii/hard_rock_radio_stations_los_angeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://raxusitusumulag.rf.gd/79164178533.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF061 5472 bytes
SHA-256: e1ca859c18c152294f4c3d42d42c528d8a93ce02d0458175296e7c6fe3861fee
font_01_sfnt_off000102c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C3 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 203f77e92bc800527af9d2c32b39ad5d11fc8064b4338deac6ecabc6bff7afd1
font_02_sfnt_off000125a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c