Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7142556b9108c9a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.1 KB Created: 2021-01-11 10:59:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: d973ac151ab1f5acef5e01eb100f2889 SHA-1: 47d8bd8d10f4ccb0f222f23a9f5c911868a4aa85 SHA-256: 7142556b9108c9a2aba2f071bf30401bf001f417063e660946debf6fec34f9ac
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?utm_term=anstoss+2+gold++free In PDF document text
    • https://kaginugopaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310825/755d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rojusonevupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814232/9095153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezuzerise/9MghRhf/33416733391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufajagirudul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452858/9008752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojufewuwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235401/37758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxitasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454719/padet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1238560.mozfiles.com/files/1238560/kikobapupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajalosi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901252/8700032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werotibumef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900185/6777981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zugutixe/chemical_reactions_worksheet_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lefemijip/drugi_svetski_rat_knjige.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_off0000c608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC608 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 4c651a2c614ec5d745cbdb273014ef4e6ceac1df3fce64da6b3fc3b5f916866e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD718 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 31725fc151f5ed457c3dd3dafea4bbd6fe32cade7e9f334b480998952ad7528e