Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7789e0d2ceec3be9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-04-28 15:09:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: c940447c41f5a6a20b7a2c7162e549a2 SHA-1: 2d478797cd27b0b806a6e3cf965cc5568836427e SHA-256: 7789e0d2ceec3be9342047562754f47dde18d14d09d5a1a153c80155eb0e2da7
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document appears to be a link farm designed to distribute traffic to various external sites, likely for phishing or SEO spam purposes. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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+are+interesting+facts+about+brown+bears In PDF document text
    • https://kagebavewijove.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740568/14fd6c7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misevitazivizux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134376704/a89dbfa1c69efbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labiluwewinedu.22web.org/alberta_immunization_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buwolerujagelav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134580081/7478883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zevixoleg.iblogger.org/gosodanuguwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vabodulesofife.22web.org/editable_dog_bone_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipivejezijab.iblogger.org/happy_birthday_song_naa_songs_telugu.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/289fa450-9a9d-4309-89de-ec376a825621/how_to_weld_1018_steel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/81add0b6-143f-4086-9c1a-c21dd951a124/toro_ecx_fuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famigobefil.epizy.com/summer_escapes_12x30_pool_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xukanomarexumu/15384426637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5090c2af-253d-40c3-bfb7-942fc6db26b0.filesusr.com/ugd/0511f5_e7671c2ee30048d8938e015fdf04052a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aaf2f8d8-4593-4070-95c3-ed2308805076.filesusr.com/ugd/337eea_4ea674d93d8c4aa8b39f3792bfd75f9d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a78b89bc-3959-451f-ae09-bef5fce4e21a/31359922115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8a110cdf-09fe-4c33-a9e4-4174f123712f/8654860621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gumegulaxi/jizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/671317da-50df-4ce1-ad76-b53e23af960b/robarazufupibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6760f0fd-2a1c-414a-9f50-7daf74b7074f/28829858721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/084aa53c-3b2d-4444-aee1-df183363e600/traductor_de_espaol_a_ingles_y_su_pronunciacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3e021c9a-284a-4c54-9ba1-f6d43d4d2ba5.filesusr.com/ugd/a619af_6c2cf1d991bf41d5aa6aa82624846a57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/siwixomudit/beyblade_burst_mega_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bf9c9710-0208-4dde-91d7-f0f8cf2d2db3/what_is_a_proofreading_symbol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76be2dec-8a72-4399-a029-a269c4f74a4f/reloading_bench_plans.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_off0001017e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017E 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 20f423a1459afc896fc14b973652c620ff83f76eaa46662202f819d3da72bf75
font_01_sfnt_off000113d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D0 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b5eeaa81981237b38001dd0ebb054563d6cf2360832e8864963acd70c3b79e7f