Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68e1245c955af3f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-05-03 01:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c642cee088971d46b9c602739569bcae SHA-1: 10ea1fe1d5d8d98205b89ac32d6066b280d3774b SHA-256: 68e1245c955af3f18974a95fbd9e1663baaf528db39bd28f59b8167430dd21b2
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The primary URL, 'https://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=internal+combustion+engine+vs+electric+motor+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=internal+combustion+engine+vs+electric+motor+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gadowikuxe/jds3eC2/7586590068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawoxufogor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136022219/551f20e4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pelopuxi/ieiaTHk/wolf_wallpaper_hd_desktop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://difidewuwigexej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134652805/e8841f2d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puxasuzad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352875/mixupav_dibuz_gugezofeturegor_bobapowoluvezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fiseguvugele/giujejh/fejafevolefovokawowajot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zejizoguzut/lRge1jf/gartner_magic_quadrant_siem_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bimonabozo/dgcxXhd/95410568275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gifitebona/ihkhgfj/20000755444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wevosevob/QghhQJp/neposepotuporerogiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fabegobidik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437275/c22f39b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruxukulalodi/0ocdX6w/crashing_season_3_episode_4_review.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/887c4c79-8752-4b92-94b3-974f5dc5961e/firuvude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d26bb5b5-d9f4-44c3-962a-d7404fd6de26/irrevocable_letter_of_credit_vs_bank_guarantee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5e9816b5-e261-4a84-a5c7-594b6999e1c8.filesusr.com/ugd/eb2f7d_d497a72fc6ec4977950d6a9ba63353f5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://14319df0-7947-4f0d-bbb3-eaa17d5eb23e.filesusr.com/ugd/c45f38_9b8221d7b5684bba83e9fb74c9427bcd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/348052a2-ee68-4b66-a79b-2d3e60e4625d/simple_comfort_thermostat_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0414f23c-eaa4-4a27-b660-0a25048b6f77/18742398250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b889fdfb-485b-45cc-bfc4-0b5bf5f52526/52332054575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3437305d-a3f4-4f94-9a63-846dd410f5be.filesusr.com/ugd/ffe76b_3bbca41866ee4fe6bac68d459b9c770c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8223d7b-45fd-4098-8116-7322d83f872c/61278143144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://148d48ef-a78d-4e34-a4d2-755cfbac042a.filesusr.com/ugd/ccca9b_718d1a86650a42659c578838b82d4d10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57075ef0-b893-432c-aa17-18d135d3820d/directv_genie_remote_not_working_with_samsung_tv.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_off00015401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15401 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 88e25a051cb5a4de808ae9b8ee7587f72f55c08a807f55775ed075f4336e821a
font_01_sfnt_off00016700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16700 13176 bytes
SHA-256: bd3ccfa163a3e987bad27e2ce952550434d2e77a18ac6c399880ef8c14015ffd