Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 650f03d7dc24a201…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-03-22 01:39:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8562ff890a6d266a5a132ba20eb072b3 SHA-1: d9148279cca8b126a672c1b3528e93ff38456ecc SHA-256: 650f03d7dc24a20129d44901748041a533c206282450778e603c91948a29173e
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a redirector link further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=programming+python+pdf+lutz In PDF document text
    • http://dinabosovub.iblogger.org/what_is_victoria_justice_doing_nowadays.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://furureseseruwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481841/kumobenufavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375522/normal_603ebe95a04c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fipamowusaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134879766/7070489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pifonode/khhxTI4/boduvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gagobuniponi/fYAidid/papurevamefakizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wesafave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307961/pexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kipezipilojo/hiijtia/configurar_retroarch_android_ps2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421218/normal_60337e651fe50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/datimemovuko/jehiGjc/mermaid_photoshoot_underwater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xewiliwilax/VheQ5OJ/butter_icing_decorating_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevarepovorumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303359/fovebawiwureganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jozojonujaj/heViije/32834346920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/konajera/ljehfcD/13335311468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446394/normal_600e504e721e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408478/normal_5fc74f165e836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fokezowo.epizy.com/rusesokuvipoxixusavuwipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cceb078e-1df6-42b0-9e12-359f30e42f1d.filesusr.com/ugd/e8506d_88c01aa25ae74f1bb5fa36165a972c18.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://memaded.epizy.com/weighmax_scale_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8eccd3b7-fb20-4588-a5b5-4d8c58591879.filesusr.com/ugd/0e6328_d33d0200408e46e5bf5cde9310740d2d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jujadax.rf.gd/mogadofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rekutuvogunavur.rf.gd/reading_plus_answers_level_h_crime_fighter.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_off0001181c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181C 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 5eb1c02b0e1f45c8adafba0f664390117866d34582464507088c634e38f7cd3c
font_01_sfnt_off00012a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A78 11876 bytes
SHA-256: efed8bd0128644a9feeab95403fb38e3748ee46f81abd29838bfcb5e7811cdc7