Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8354e950bab89cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-03-19 22:47:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 34fa4ab0cdb8ea377e754977f08b7bca SHA-1: 48fbc703f0f83dc95ef7d419a63e229feb112b45 SHA-256: 8354e950bab89cc468d5d6583e14277a18e5e22bfeea69276094439281103ea4
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags a URL leading to known malicious infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ClamAV detection indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=5+w%2527s+worksheet+for+kindergarten In PDF document text
    • https://dunulukega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134442930/fevujemewonis_xuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/miweguzeg/jjfjcii/the_knight_s_tale_canterbury_tales_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vaminika/Fheijja/temple_run_2_mega_mod_apk_latest_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gawivoxolo/b7GwqkZ/word_finder_app_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zalenemu/0ijjado/vududeximegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mevukufidax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379039/877171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunogijejuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813547/f08b8103b767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fiporalisu/icchaLe/asian_empire_2027_mod_apk_unlimited_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/govulasem/id5jgja/italian_music_festivals_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pexarokozisakim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135313666/226f6489b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibizunazop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710786/dfb8b64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wegasanapifare.iblogger.org/network_marketing_101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potusowo.22web.org/active_and_passive_voice_practice_test_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xawodoze/hLjdhik/talepuxedolegofokapegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zojixemem/y0hfWSO/tafugodebawisovoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muxozuvalubi/wuferapini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zafijukopa/harbour_breeze_fan_remote_programming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losapudobo.epizy.com/66496721021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaweki.rf.gd/taco_bell_chicken_chalupa_supreme_nutrition_facts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedotoxedutowad.epizy.com/tax_rate_changes_2020_budget.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_off0000dfc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC7 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 59ee195018369d341fcdd6c2e964f89b13f6260aa57768c2efa68be392584245
font_01_sfnt_off0000f214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF214 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 64ab8c921edbd93a21e9d20a9b5a833b4176439eaa289e7628bbffec364a9b85