Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a62ac976573e5d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-03-14 00:14:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a2e8a5b7b7e6396ecbbda8a109315213 SHA-1: d28197b05902445dc38ee7daff0d2be8f9d7e4b8 SHA-256: 6a62ac976573e5d2a2a5ac09ee187083e21df7e8cbbd705173e8cb509fa12876
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of URLs and heuristic firings like 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirm its role as a lure to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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=atmega32a+datasheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rudugebakivo/ihz19hc/bubble_pirates_bubble_shooter_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378856/normal_5fe890369530d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404287/normal_5fd03a623f20d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382789/normal_60246fc3382a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456666/normal_601512bf9fee0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lipetebo/ggW5z7a/39233276964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wigatozaduw/fbuoigL/mix_app_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404520/normal_6007d6e78f514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lonuxonemor/fgdzIO0/kojinilijeritepaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406473/normal_6022bc77447dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4484364/normal_5ff7852769fb4.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/tasufagijaremo/ligularia_reniformis_flower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c5361ad-85b0-4d18-86f6-4a3ee5229394/81464973307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d99d9bf7-a5e0-49f2-90ac-0d1bc881463d.filesusr.com/ugd/0182ef_52c4692a0f7d47da89218d6b70c4ef1f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://170d08c7-2527-4f8e-8bc4-cf7f6ffab704.filesusr.com/ugd/afe24e_f18cae58a7414ff9928fb9a64f5f491a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20060ce2-e901-4f4e-93b1-eb6557716c04/first_alert_carbon_monoxide_alarm_battery_change.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ladojenefe/sozirotolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3682d434-6e27-4ac8-9ac2-d3ec24fa429c.filesusr.com/ugd/9b5f63_3fbb7a8c48074c95a196dba6676b76c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wujapu/26300599567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/638dc9a3-2320-4e1d-9d95-006ff2fc6e00/soccer_practice_plans_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tometubufimopim/pimuziruxetev.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_off0000e59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59C 5136 bytes
SHA-256: a844ba6dc155f7ea5e00b3c8d5d91fce4ce7baa99f5b105756e0c596f17acf60
font_01_sfnt_off0000f71d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF71D 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 7d571ba7c10f538987c65cb8d25cd0f2eacf8905181f27351283d38acf675514
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3