Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 728eee166e1c3a32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-05-14 08:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9986f9783e95cae52409ef3df382a103 SHA-1: c1ac9bde20ad824c0fcf888d5194402bdbc13118 SHA-256: 728eee166e1c3a326410259c9488e56cdf033bcf63b87f6afdc4e538368de424
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or known malicious redirectors. The heuristic firings indicate it's a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting its purpose is to lure users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+the+act+of+declaration+of+philippine+independence In PDF document text
    • http://nafepuzemobir.sportsontheweb.net/wumukuzifutizano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesesagipamagaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739561/e5d97b5dcea504d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitikirazidapi.medianewsonline.com/oxford_picture_dictionary_english_arabic_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devedilazabu.medianewsonline.com/akademikong_sulatin_sa_agham_panlipunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rumafelaneli.mygamesonline.org/vitek_ms_biomerieux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betufevu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134098732/luraxitexurowux_pedakikanilaju_mozotinesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fagedanagaga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876409/wububolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a24873fb-7267-4863-ad28-01c01c8c0921/how_to_create_unlimited_energy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d99d9bf7-a5e0-49f2-90ac-0d1bc881463d.filesusr.com/ugd/0182ef_079bd641cbf24b648957a23450de1cb9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b3709dad-42f4-4621-9b7e-74d31ca978cd.filesusr.com/ugd/f91cf1_71d3d1059af24cf9bdf2f2b3e22e3896.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0eb00d84-361a-45dc-b346-1af5c8eb785c.filesusr.com/ugd/d79848_f26ce5ff22a04829bd63f5791f923d6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f8739b96-9259-4b9f-80ac-d6e43857220f/peavey_bandit_112_solo_series_scorpion_equipped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5e54824a-8208-41b0-8aeb-7c017e8cfb46.filesusr.com/ugd/f64db8_11fe4e824eb74dc3a66a79a119288e2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70f71306-8f2e-49f0-8c94-a0e516d98a80/the_walking_dead_comic_issue_117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8ee6e747-7380-4d9b-9d3f-d9c6d60a1cfc/turbochef_sota_f8_heat_lo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gonima/watchmen_comic_ending_vs_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/radubozufiwo/masimo_radical_7_pulse_oximeter_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://69cf8a46-0d3d-4b71-8fd1-93df925da18e.filesusr.com/ugd/e4064d_56159f51971c49a080f72897ed489460.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_off00010133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10133 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 12d1b624d1b4b741eac8af221e96413c67bc73c749c9cb41e879a367c5978fef
font_01_sfnt_off0001131b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131B 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 43689c3d00b937aa90666c0adabf96272b922871a1a91ffa50eb70b5586e883d