Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bbf14a28063a1b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

170.9 KB Created: 2021-04-08 22:43:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 764006505bb5a077645395e680cb167f SHA-1: 235788114dcf6adc904770cd1cb42c0411a93b22 SHA-256: 6bbf14a28063a1b3a78b7bcd5803505e11ee0dc2b88b83192ca3b4195aa419a6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical alert for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URLs, such as https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=hamlet+by+william+shakespeare+book+review, are designed to lead users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool sometimes used to create malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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/strik?utm_term=hamlet+by+william+shakespeare+book+review In PDF document text
    • https://zelivetatop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814581/ninij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstreadersclub.com/1130691288842l0o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481836/normal_60531372b720d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhizmet.com/wilcom_embroidery_software__crackg862y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471250/normal_5fdfdb5a3f2be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisigategisabuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884720/6531689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigujixuvavotuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135391978/jemenodosagigetez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summer-italy.fun/69581334352qtrix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-igsupport.com/69543640310n2bp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zootime.store/gujagubulamopap8jkqu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pijetupuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351396/kagefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8d6920c1-aef5-45ed-b1a0-e693d63948fb.filesusr.com/ugd/0a593f_6949c1a119fa4136a681a94203bd0eb9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bexovivuvere.myartsonline.com/77087435286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://128fc002-9ed4-4a8f-9a6b-83b43563a9ed.filesusr.com/ugd/6812d7_ffe0ff5d2c6f4930bb48e2d9cdc3fd20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nujugeteteda.myartsonline.com/mass_effect_2_crack_freedoms_progress.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://45ed8376-e832-497f-ab20-0a31924dc5db.filesusr.com/ugd/4b7290_6aa1fad4de6e4984b125cd5c126dd706.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://627ea4a7-3f28-4bf3-8c99-6a9da7dacf48.filesusr.com/ugd/1970e2_4bf391552372440fa605c8a061835e4d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://369206df-e466-4f8f-9771-850d1edb33c5.filesusr.com/ugd/8fd5dc_d6089f44fbf34b3baf9951614b24b7e7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bed1e925-73f7-457c-87ff-53f226988024.filesusr.com/ugd/d4a8ce_4c7d61f51261463bb9dbfc70b6830149.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kisalonokexiwi.atwebpages.com/63462339477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nunavaxukozu.onlinewebshop.net/accountancy_class_11_ncert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1fd079ea-3156-4ae8-a0b4-6153e0b529c5.filesusr.com/ugd/e66bf7_995d3197851240e68184353dddd6e617.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://abee6ad4-cf47-459a-954e-22b9b9bb30ad.filesusr.com/ugd/4bdc6d_000b83773ef24467a5bdbb6dad1ca545.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00026148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26148 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 5c74fd629aac10afea44f36c0c62d7dee916f0deb14b9a7b8c68aaddc2043e69
font_01_sfnt_off000273cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x273CD 12844 bytes
SHA-256: 33e3e77ccb7e4f0d5a72f10486783cc8c57ee1541955e8b49f176a059241d6a4