Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81cbe4448efce1ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-04-11 01:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: b730e5978e2c835b7a943c647021afb0 SHA-1: 33218e4193ef9597b68d9b3771cfb9d4512ed383 SHA-256: 81cbe4448efce1cae39baa8ae9810e1b253534a45053b227caa6ef2192582c17
324 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including critical detections for a malicious redirector link and brand-impersonation credential phishing. The document contains a link farm with 30 external PDF links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to lead users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://gogabaxada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852864/bf4d4ea3.pdf.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=complex+sentence+effect+meaning In PDF document text
    • https://gogabaxada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852864/bf4d4ea3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitalotava.scienceontheweb.net/ti_ba_ii_plus_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaxamapex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017084/8812994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zarepowake/hbgWM9I/2912726142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rawiranuxox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134618620/9291521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fafuzum.sportsontheweb.net/83572455997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezakagadol/jgOrCib/60435118749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jogeguzotire/gdhbOjf/9828620677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xejapekedom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134864907/sazesev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketuvukelese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351906/kivujegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jibetovo/tjhfgh2/download_wifi_qr_code_scanner_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanaxade.mygamesonline.org/zoom_505_sound_patches.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worubagazew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134639575/9458b3bf856888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokonipazesokut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398478/kupizetekexagat-legojexigevawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giwewigipebi.medianewsonline.com/17401305431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuguboxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134672273/vekibofomonazutadoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vawivulumekil.onlinewebshop.net/sintomas_de_anemia_falciforme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/medaliwifufugel/celtic_mythology_pronunciation_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/garorowa/52419332688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viromibukoleliw/how_to_draw_a_brain_in_illustrator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jofikuv.atwebpages.com/35986523604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bivojeda.atwebpages.com/witcher_2_essential_mods_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sefiwegegagu/94999130836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vitelitubovuluj/best_travel_guides_for_greece.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorokepu.atwebpages.com/big_data_java.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3E 5212 bytes
SHA-256: f3e901eb15ef03a31a4cd1ea3b4de827d3f1173d7990781e6a562e4b74d3ebaf
font_01_sfnt_off00010deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DEB 1892 bytes
SHA-256: c4ebf9374f183e0d06abff076368f9778f5420368af1f3cb29c6cd45b472c97f
font_02_sfnt_off0001170b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170B 11644 bytes
SHA-256: bfa90ac68ae6d38eb6c777a655c91f1e44f041f3cd42b71f056bba562da3af6d