Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a2fa18a4295e982…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-04-02 22:24:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d7fa98cbd8972474a1d9d647d7c5d5f4 SHA-1: 23ea3d63c9b379b6cb8df7dfd8ac5bffad40acf0 SHA-256: 5a2fa18a4295e98235bf7fe512f438ae5a6ceafa046a8753704a4f3eed9f1d9d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=a+brief+history+of+neoliberalism+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://espacecmb.xyz/86361031891zkhwj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388158/normal_5fd82b189143a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulukegoror.getenjoyment.net/mental_ability_test_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zomaragexavope.sportsontheweb.net/typhoid_fever_in_child.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479454/normal_601ae13aa0f6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xawegap.mywebcommunity.org/birdy_skinny_love_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446790/normal_605ad7a64fece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aycotoro7.xyz/xuxevafiponodlawzk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386824/normal_60465fcb35d4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485308/normal_5fca6b7217e88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doweryklkq.space/hp_designjet_5000ps_large_format_printers69af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpcenter.business/nsw_mathematics_k_10_syllabuspvueq.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/8b024e1c-feb0-4eea-9074-11f64d6465eb/how_to_be_a_monkey_in_gta_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6a8c3f3f-5248-4e80-80e0-4bf2c04f72bc.filesusr.com/ugd/8b2c09_617912001d1d4bd3b53fc31872829c9f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c36efdde-2309-4ce2-a10d-b6df2ce12cd8.filesusr.com/ugd/e98059_9f945d79df864dce8bf77b0382c2ecaa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0f0532cb-4478-41f9-91a1-cf277c4732ec.filesusr.com/ugd/8acad3_62b50408e1f945e1a96d240362ffb252.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zirutabu.myartsonline.com/blue_jackets_reverse_retro_jersey_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e51352f3-ee4d-4b78-b27e-70bf8d3fd8e4/the_boy_in_the_striped_pyjamas_novel_activities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69ded714-0a22-4ea6-9262-6a556e9506f2/sesosukosetupugodovita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a6ee56f-fa96-4033-a96f-ada8622b973a/how_to_write_a_null_hypothesis_a_level_biology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d8ce10c-c56d-4f65-a9c8-b34262036e04/fagebeferuditu.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_off0000d8f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F8 5604 bytes
SHA-256: e2ca2c7c3261a9d707aa8c1325209535b6ba1758f529d86a992a8ad99b9e74ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBEE 12200 bytes
SHA-256: c88d9540f20fce1ac1e78b343d1744c066e10c405fa9862da617c746244ab66e