Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ba0b561222cc91f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-05-22 15:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 25af415df4820ebe1d73cb3912149e02 SHA-1: d18c55cc24f032e36e191816fe79733ec98eb720 SHA-256: 5ba0b561222cc91f7ca981be5a133a4d3c976e7de62f5749d67a2d9d61edae4b
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating redirection to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'macroeconomics multiple choice questions and answers pdf in hindi'. The presence of multiple disposable hosting links further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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/strik?utm_term=macroeconomics+multiple+choice+questions+and+answers+pdf+in+hindi In PDF document text
    • https://kesevure.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134497963/67d0d7b61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4373998/normal_600843cc8d635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozopameniv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593493/ee9cc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kajizifobizixa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997117/davawogebeniwofagire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367925/normal_600dd2a484883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445726/normal_5ffe100c67bce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421199/normal_601774287b3c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389090/normal_601d90d3a4745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491410/normal_5fdc5aa9870d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rukuzidin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134517246/puvibogirabul-pazinexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380395/normal_5fed732939323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416935/normal_605485a5bb83a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368759/normal_6041b1a348347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xotituwidekave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585458/6560640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388046/normal_5fc827619b8fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457572/normal_602c7b853cd5e.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/b4b8587e-c508-4dd3-b8ff-2b39196e55ed/58941223292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lorerexeg/vuzusaxelaloxetosiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f5c8c06a-6479-4dd7-b80c-e1a09ecba32e/gravity_falls_journal_3_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jovekus/gabriola_free_font.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bokexizometun/how_much_does_a_gallon_ziplock_bag_weigh_in_grams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ddb28123-7951-4a3b-9e9d-9a87e253a903/the_chocolate_war_manipulation_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sinamozagemoger/rectangular_optical_waveguide_modes.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001377c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1377C 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 6047b500b9a842a66c53f66f49c1cae3b756e0361bd2ae89a8d0a4d0125bfa88
font_01_sfnt_off00014a87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A87 12152 bytes
SHA-256: f0fe70a7101298f7015988045047ba769e485f03df9e2c52ca962df5d803b6f7
font_02_sfnt_off00017334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17334 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 713933360072c9d59346590fad668f98c3603c6d2b72ed941ce85481f6af0b74