Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59e9740c45754107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.4 KB Created: 2020-11-25 05:40:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 37a0d5926ad62e28c638887dedca0323 SHA-1: c7f650c4f17b9cf66bc3916eef80baed5438df53 SHA-256: 59e9740c457541074920b5a95254034e133f86cd07d3ba9a19cad99f7977db8c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that redirect to external sites, including one identified as a known malicious redirector. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://cctraff.ru/123?utm_term=ophthalmology+pdf+facebook In PDF document text
    • https://pogedufofow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134512351/6246220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bogemokized.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134386998/5154710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kagepejipewabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134871264/7086090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepuvagugi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767339/jedopafapesaluximapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufevilasok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314299/110014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gowoxavakuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134702457/dapune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377371/normal_5f8ce01906caf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82c3f5b8-7df6-4cf8-b03f-109f4a7edc95/642666253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f536b11b-f8f3-46f9-b3db-c246b1ec19d3/fuginatijojulubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buxoparadazegu/keppel_dc_reit_annual_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1f039422-11ab-4762-99de-d89f1cb7dc96/mesepetowapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitajemisajoz/32138761807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8c56fe40-9b9d-4775-ab27-ff2e07133f59/fosamomoviwot.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000acaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACAA 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 41081570912fb1cfba648e99f44fc4859e7114db64939777e6086358519b7120
font_01_sfnt_off0000bfaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFAA 4376 bytes
SHA-256: d99d01523b1a307b502d6255d17f7bb7a688d758d526ef68b9b4573dd47a0f26
font_02_sfnt_off0000cb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8A 9628 bytes
SHA-256: ab84226894f909ae585466f5708ea8428ebf4c003b685c1b581df349005a5f2c
font_03_sfnt_off0000eb6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6C 1736 bytes
SHA-256: 0d9b6ab0354368cdfa5a4e52e4dfb250ede80cec4283e48fafec0a3c1c1d30df