Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61a07b7e9696c979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-04-01 03:12:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: de383d4cf806ebb88effea63ff3a0981 SHA-1: 565c810aab93a25a6f6595e643355b086246ff5c SHA-256: 61a07b7e9696c97942bba75f7cc76f6dc02e33507285cccfd96f461066165ded
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and flagged as part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'tides worksheet 8th grade'. The presence of malicious redirector links and a high ML classifier score strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using spearphishing as the initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/wix?keyword=tides+worksheet+8th+grade In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suwuwewazaka/ggnjiLi/narexokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/melipetoluf/edNU0hb/cara_membeli_voucher_game_di_shopee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kusipujetaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134462876/xidisadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471250/normal_5fe791d7b3729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390056/normal_60355ad6de5d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vagewovupug/0Ahcjhw/xanezomujanalurizuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vizebika/aijhbTn/serologa_forense_informacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watertea.space/6213237352poyoa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/turanexode/jja05ii/gejopaxanubumekemuvoxofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reratuzofi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346135/4391871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490125/normal_5fc86e9313ddd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmaya.site/steve_jobs_lecciones_de_liderazgo9elgh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuropowupenuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813979/6186000.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://s3.amazonaws.com/rimepusox/zewibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bivanud/how_to_landscape_along_side_of_house.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/norozovijalu/piriformis_injury_running.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0b13981-e831-42da-a96b-9a574a5fef48/bekaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/979c55f8-89a4-41ab-a3c1-18aea271f568/how_to_tell_if_carb_is_too_rich_or_lean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mijumomub/22_gauge_galvanized_steel_sheet.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_off0000dbc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC0 5036 bytes
SHA-256: d98ddeefe958ffb9dcf60e6c202f4d164cb5832b125c02d0a661afc86829e4e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 11144 bytes
SHA-256: ee8014c573f541c297c8eb8a84154a4a9452099724040ec1015e3d784aa6fb3d
font_02_sfnt_off000112ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378