Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77b8439278f138bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-02-23 23:14:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: db3b57f328c3a8be2166bd32dc808810 SHA-1: e87de1ca4987d21507d7fc531bfec3332f591334 SHA-256: 77b8439278f138bb6488427d0dc6644c3c006c25a33e14271061c1ba8cf01c6f
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to various external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The combination of these factors strongly suggests the document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=what+to+have+pre+and+post+workout In PDF document text
    • https://vawosikajoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438279/bixowudipone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myfoxing.online/420254337610rr43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anarchymedya.com/dental_material_phillipskpk9p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogefuza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688393/nanajojaxeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368505/normal_60303a8adbf70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungo1.space/batsu_game_freeo4pd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vashmaster.info/tijipemelawalazoxf8yih.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xirejefeju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134723985/8d4f8afdde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podeves.xyz/algas_que_se_encuentran_en_el_agua_e6mhc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vumetubav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776444/baxisitotuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muvesajaduxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012660/vosaxexikugitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortuneocredit.com/assassin_s_creed_origins_apk_for_androidzhavz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kusipujetaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134462876/373091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemusudavigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135395292/daginekox-tiganoverupolid-sojevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414175/normal_6028ba65cf577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givodevivunafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871579/donodibugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 2960 bytes
SHA-256: a31aedb3fe800cd2b5c0120397ec9570e12c7cc97febb81e3d6171160c50e6bc
font_01_sfnt_off000105e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E0 5244 bytes
SHA-256: a00fb8a2477682ff5af62826da348d284dc8a53c9f5e30affb6c83746c101668
font_02_sfnt_off000117c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C7 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 0b7a1e09760e5cbb9011776d864976b3ddf278fc31ef40316927703eba8cf531