Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76a46faed04cc6ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-05-25 12:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 3cb54c8a5858ccd67e1a0ac6b4899565 SHA-1: d7864c72add1e62d9e58caa0a2a34ef37b1ee581 SHA-256: 76a46faed04cc6ea859af99500f09ad5e73a6e7a1f3b261fe7acd25a880fe4a5
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagging it as a PDF redirector and link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary purpose is to host links rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+use+melodyne+in+studio+one+2 In PDF document text
    • https://lenapejasuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134749539/jevep-jojapisade-lotuzopopipo-kurujumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414502/normal_5ff13cbbedfcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajomunimiru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070213/kojoxaxi-ritisepizugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496585/normal_6068c9a4b65ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426072/normal_60247840d6f8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefisejeradez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886640/nudekesofi-salarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kixifosesezor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133998007/xizizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexujimejuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265975/7c446d66fee04b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4381544/normal_5feb6c90d99eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384296/normal_602e37365e5ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384316/normal_5fca2e08129e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojobojijiwum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681334/62407da2a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368742/normal_60268c2a643c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanovupejofo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134580977/5854f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wewiloviwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585183/1246098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446931/normal_605d7e84499c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417029/normal_60325dedccd34.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/ced22bf1-bb34-4744-b4e9-4058342dc695/76753462289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3f51d15-1f21-49de-9937-549f9d63d6e2/10061199596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/figugipopar/building_images_in_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b70c22d9-7aba-4ff2-a569-40a04a5bfa69/35500217958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jafujasiwetid/cavernous_malformation_of_brain_mri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c45a55e-ffac-48c2-bbb3-b59daa01b974/hp_photosmart_c3180_all-in-one_printer_power_cord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mamibis/ukraine_medical_device_adverse_event_reporting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97cab124-2e80-44c8-a62b-533b16d993c3/90761831477.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_off00014da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DA6 4952 bytes
SHA-256: 855cdf2ea4834d666b348829b4636cc15afe60187088762971d2462145e83f2f
font_01_sfnt_off00015e82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E82 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 4435bbcbbd80ad7f10df75b370f5ffb7e3c5c7fed185bdd2241f4b67f01cb8b7