Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a440c719fbb2a60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.8 KB Created: 2021-03-17 03:29:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 05d62422972e072c2e8b8fa4b196ac81 SHA-1: d81b205e6cf3a57415594dea99c3d52ee3570450 SHA-256: 5a440c719fbb2a60b2c15425b2c9ae6d8e7730a3d8107de1cf6faa562cd82354
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating it's a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting, designed to create a link farm. One prominent URL, 'https://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=genetics+and+evolution+pdf+notes', is flagged as a malicious redirector, suggesting it leads to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=genetics+and+evolution+pdf+notes In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387712/normal_602c25b92d58f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500669/normal_604d110f2ffc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gipomezaligivuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135348854/3489170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borubonaxufiza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135318051/7509621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466679/normal_5fd67a952351d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/noperizapewo/a4IibLt/83247432497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pukapukipek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134636258/b09cb816ab4eeea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ributexovek/I2Shjje/soviet_army_metal_buttons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gonolesuzam/hricHhg/pukasigujixuwukulagabovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivujage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316273/3464329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ramasiwo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135390431/pajezubujekujimada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodagirojep/V4lsffq/25434568932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jepololazatozuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134601538/fajevobaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420588/normal_5ff8ca94625be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigixunejalimiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315438/9b63c4e1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jibisovewa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653871/mabemegefedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lupemofuxuxutuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383332/2097765.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d7d2a3d-3c16-494f-bbb5-7b2458d38406/hp_elitebook_folio_9480m_camera_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f171fa8b-3fcf-4302-ae8e-9719c805ed50/foscam_fi9821w_v2.1_firmware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42d95841-7c38-47ed-af4b-beac62301450/sketchup_viewer_app_for_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2fc6581f-d24f-40b7-90fa-630c71e5ba97/buwupirikesobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e34f5ee-b1d7-4298-89ea-4cdadba51f6c/nixedanobifavema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90c9583f-5fa9-4d98-b705-eabbe253ce00/simovimulemupatinoxapixew.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_off00013e1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E1D 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 8a981971183815bcfc2988c82baba9dc451d388f27a1a118fd59e1d100bc0665
font_01_sfnt_off00014f55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F55 12216 bytes
SHA-256: 563d21b2fe74120a2f9191de0645fc5e3990776a7d18642460b27b5aa9b7e0bb
font_02_sfnt_off000177c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177C4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3