Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a25dab8db38b921…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-01-21 20:27:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 42de8366d5f2851b041fc4a1ccc605cd SHA-1: 7372b23e5ae4067b2dc59d36b24a43fbd1d2ffc4 SHA-256: 6a25dab8db38b92114e289b899677618180a7c7020a1fee4c9110475817aed58
354 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file exhibits multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and SEO link farms. The document body contains numerous URLs disguised as job search resources, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of a malformed stream length and ML classifier flagging further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Travel-support phone-number stuffing scam critical SE_TRAVEL_SUPPORT_PHONE_SCAM
    Document repeats phone numbers in airline/travel/refund/support language, often across multiple regional phrasings. This matches SEO/support-scam PDFs that impersonate airlines or travel brands and route users to attacker-controlled call centers rather than a normal travel document.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://site-1168108.mozfiles.com/files/1168108/68055030096.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367622/normal_6006200a7a46d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1191329.mozfiles.com/files/1191329/kovunagizifabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fibesezati/wexiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savatevadenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452836/710d5ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1176629.mozfiles.com/files/1176629/60998240612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/banula/71978206658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomavunut/2ELYwUx/3514568644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kaxukok/tilepuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tapelu/audi_a4_2017_car_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412158/normal_5ff539ccbe85b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuroteditu/bgfhaTL/65631394849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404520/normal_6007d6a20a61d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tesotiwapax/48165668217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lawafopugu/JkihjcK/93102621458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yafferge.ru/123?utm_term=nekter+jobs+near+meIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000dea1.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000dea1.bin)
    • 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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000dea1.bin)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA1 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 15d9bf3b284760f5b2693114a7054f31ebfbee1abf73d60a5e6b15fa9649e0b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB8 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 12f844bfbda2eb9326e6f4842597ae190f947a90bd09b8869295d40c2c3ecd54