Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5984686bcb65836c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-03-08 09:07:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: a046c3a9c369b0450623aec780ce6647 SHA-1: a1470132783156342b587c60a43da6a50b1bb6d0 SHA-256: 5984686bcb65836ca24a131d80b58782839153412dc8f088a572e79f9fa87517
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, suggesting a potential phishing or malware distribution vector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent, likely related to distributing further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+alpha+girl In PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411218/normal_600317370c58a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xakelafu/OtVib5S/1858283870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386595/normal_602f4432067fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450734/normal_600d63965aa66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485943/normal_60098fef02ddc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zukudanasoxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/7677673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jelakuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856802/rokajorabaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465539/normal_5ff6206954133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dofujifeluradep.medianewsonline.com/45929444417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/janezewufaj/YaifiiV/dopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/besimiwi/d0hg95F/79561982593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolixolosunep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134403343/4807768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423453/normal_6024c0b0b4454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regifevadep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134476302/1be6d045d24a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471096/normal_5fe2da7d8d3e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babuzusevajuwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878483/zudisetexopune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorulezebum.sportsontheweb.net/71582607502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kixobaza/h0jb2fb/zowumiwibewalizekugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tejilunuf/hdgeyid/final_fantasy_viii_remastered_background_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000113e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E8 5092 bytes
SHA-256: c34dc0f196feb1cf80c367ce1ed6e686d7ff899389b6691d398bb20fc90c6d66
font_01_sfnt_off00012542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12542 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 251ddba28cac3f743503f09e936b54d3aa196c99c27735139414caf05e6de808