Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88063796173befc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-04-05 12:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 45cbc9b01e4bfcaf51ff7f53b1425c61 SHA-1: cee3e0b956e5e0c3d86373f7069ff285ac70ddbf SHA-256: 88063796173befc39850e6cbae001bc456ea84a54c45be3e71694e4da15689d9
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains a critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK finding. The embedded URL `https://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=early+transcendentals+8th+edition+pdf+reddit` points to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/award?keyword=early+transcendentals+8th+edition+pdf+reddit In PDF document text
    • http://romeita.space/jukibakivoxubipadozshrk6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trysol.xyz/raxudazuresonolome44y86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketes.pro/adagio_in_g_minor_sheet_music_violindocxb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385633/normal_605ee3fc0441d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaxiluxedexu.getenjoyment.net/nosagumujapopuratoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uaregroup.com/what_do_you_have_to_do_with_social_security_when_you_turn_65pu8pb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitikirazidapi.medianewsonline.com/dejobopojezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workshop-fb.ru/arithmetic_series_word_problems2xtar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383137/normal_5fe643e6a53f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495390/normal_60478ae9ccf7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457838/normal_6034f7c3927d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://65fca3b3-7ce8-4d56-9bc8-ebe46cc5223b.filesusr.com/ugd/f6ed72_ce57acdfa036494fb65c3b5f0151dd4f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://77bac38d-831a-46d6-8f22-d7743fcadc58.filesusr.com/ugd/5b9a87_28ce8f4c9f4c49b6982103e2164152bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a29221d-b90b-4b7e-8639-ba949f2db623/drake_thank_me_later_album_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fccb0e69-5ad9-405b-a3a2-2876a817ba60/what_can_i_eat_on_hcg_phase_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f3dbd103-cf2f-44fc-b0ad-c9004dc38af2.filesusr.com/ugd/1f2646_139434937b5445bc853a26241a1df731.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pezofut/zakajolorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/296a1659-143f-46dc-a8a4-23f76acdc3d3/retribution_and_deterrence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viwoxuz/96806463792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/187187f1-c444-46ff-8174-e7fd745d981c/which_cordless_shark_vacuum_is_best.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1682489e-d94b-4f22-b6a6-c8ecb623ca2e.filesusr.com/ugd/5f226e_1b89c39eb30a4142aa5342109792b04a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/remavuj/23192141896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7fe6b731-3703-45da-bcbe-faf39b4d3392.filesusr.com/ugd/880a7e_e907dc02aa154c1ab982bd29742a9de8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bokepomi.onlinewebshop.net/binary_code_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nitatotol/free_bass_guitar_tuner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gavexilatuvitaz/fb_messenger_ing_photo.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_off0001322b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1322B 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 2f17fb5362946a909ff4649a7b628d814bd3eaa13978b933277e936b95130672
font_01_sfnt_off0001441d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1441D 11504 bytes
SHA-256: 81934f40fd762ada459144b921fa5cda6f05480c36a2038e3f2b53b851a1fac7
font_02_sfnt_off00016b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B66 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2