Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a7796e5a5a22906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-02-19 23:33:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c5a96b46bbd2041b274a263f265df2ab SHA-1: 39476b47a8b3a9d917fa33a82bdc829daeaa9667 SHA-256: 6a7796e5a5a22906799c39f14fee94fc59b49133da6a54446c020c69ed0ddcf2
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users. One critical heuristic indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+the+ugliest+bird+on+earth'. This suggests the document is likely a phishing lure or a distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=what+is+the+ugliest+bird+on+earth In PDF document text
    • https://vejilete.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135312445/bf17f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vomerigovelaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901888/4247299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427538/normal_5fe48e4b380b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevotiwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437753/6344760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457305/normal_60250fbf41376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485943/normal_5ffa22f4b0f40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367617/normal_602a7e1c3e96a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416299/normal_5fe5b79ad7644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411916/normal_5fe08b0df0155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vemosoveveb/eDicjfv/37663204995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4391024/normal_5fcc08bd3c109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4422890/normal_5ff337ca8b4be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380214/normal_5fefe69fe16e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wowavimisaken.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814021/a6c84cf4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tijatabov/cgQfmii/zombie_shooter_gun_target_mod_apk_android_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403938/normal_5ff56b08b580c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495846/normal_601957012d7d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000fd14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD14 5240 bytes
SHA-256: eb0de1cf0e63fb39817751e15f3b7d5f23a62cf1d9ca575b4d6c915f26b303ba
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE3 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 67d4c7dd707edf2af58037997bcb185e49f37424ac7d6daebd019022fe6f2020