Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63f17b67eaf857b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-02-22 21:03:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 6c32def9edb64aebb4d0462c0812123c SHA-1: 1efae4a16aa1f0f960f6e2933e50b52502edefa7 SHA-256: 63f17b67eaf857b1a5f88425912c3e3049960ca8b81c4be31d08588638a2c1df
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The heuristic firings, particularly 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', strongly suggest this is not a legitimate document but rather an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://yafferge.ru/123?utm_term=what+time+does+the+us+stock+markets+close+today In PDF document text
    • https://vogaxuruxav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352923/kigatesilonuduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zoturisa/Uch4NCq/sweet_dreams_my_angel_in_french.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411935/normal_5fc854791adcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393369/normal_602d9bb37ceda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claire-irk.ru/anand_movie_bgm_freech437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/josipinu/8jjegcR/como_descargar_hungry_shark_world_hackeado_para_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetavagipiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380759/3915705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binufigelivu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134775083/716e6c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirisixifikixon.22web.org/following_instructions_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawiranuxox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134618620/rifowabepabise-lamebape-zejipuk-kejeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471083/normal_6018ce21ee705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mopepeserowote.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134621402/7443328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisatabezuniv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398333/da240913e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujakisuka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695398/wonubut_xifitapiguliz_luwumidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xopuxuvop/MWjixII/pagasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wiwokijage.rf.gd/linoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fepesori.rf.gd/amman_video_songs_1080p_free.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_off0000ec39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC39 5360 bytes
SHA-256: ba548d86cab1aea8ad93ad033e3c1be8871a7b5d5256401832c1f064ca99cdee
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE58 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 19b94206c23dc0a71be3a0fa89c73b80a4cf35b6ff490abd5c7986b4a1735e1d