Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dceaedc86b5a18e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.3 KB Created: 2021-06-04 06:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 130985d99dd6807465087ccb9e39234b SHA-1: b10446ba45f3fd8839975928a0646a27ea68089e SHA-256: 7dceaedc86b5a18ea5cf4fce593263954e20cd65a2f861505fc6d354a8c32950
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of a malicious redirector URL suggests an attempt to lead the user to a phishing or malware-hosting site. The ClamAV detection further supports the malicious classification.

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/123?utm_term=acute+coronary+syndrome+treatment+guidelines+2017 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387928/normal_600fd78a42fd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481847/normal_5fdd1aa520099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogetaguw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407632/1604200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450152/normal_5fe982459da47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456393/normal_602953b5c30fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499329/normal_6047dd1ae727e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446152/normal_6004b5717538f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373755/normal_604d184d38ec9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sexozorojupur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390270/2715581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459035/normal_6044bb63239b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4368788/normal_60b534ef1551e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pojebozotez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695867/d1889886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pofifeluvoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739131/726f72aa48bb8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417815/normal_600626801c8ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384308/normal_5fc64e3517920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wobafedufuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012960/5177494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikodidujur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135319234/1136890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rojirewika.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710632/5fe531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4377125/normal_5fe56d72d7f27.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/58b03c3b-9fa1-425a-9c16-b86eaa8cb220/pathfinder_wrath_of_the_righteous_trove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b5d6b892-7d9d-41d8-805a-6afdd5c9e06c/dls_profile_data_unlimited_coins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8c43a2a-98ff-4844-beef-119c76960974/19518869649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb417de4-7dce-433d-9184-65cdd67fc8b4/whirlpool_dishwasher_wdt720padm2_pump_replacement.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000199a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x199A8 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 7217ecdbbbc5f86ce890708f84b5923454253f5db0423d86f915ba29e2c1e0ce
font_01_sfnt_off0001ad42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD42 11928 bytes
SHA-256: e740db36f28167842feb978be3cb533ec186143cb4bd7e578761f12059c6c25d
font_02_sfnt_off0001d54a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D54A 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd