Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a3abe25879193ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-05-13 22:04:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f1f0a0b79c5ee3edacde050dc7ba2aeb SHA-1: 007a5f32e88e4c482b4aeb487a3cd70b0abbdd05 SHA-256: 8a3abe25879193ac942b268ea06690bb34ef3b7ff87ed19b9b39e4e014aaff2e
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=vizio+e+series+55'. The document also functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further supports a phishing or scam-related intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/strik?utm_term=vizio+e+series+55 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379473/normal_6015e7b59ba96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokotaxoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109163/mogeveravabezebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pafebexazare.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163914/tuveb-saketalamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufusudakewita.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681672/2448158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411700/normal_6038b75787ebc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501993/normal_605055ff6b1cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jikuwizavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873999/lefevomebobevenofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484364/normal_6029c96136da4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvijoxujav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266993/xotamopabowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolijejolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134442146/103f1edec25ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388818/normal_5ff0314137591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490534/normal_5fd7bfee1899e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wimukevefom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739067/973c62e3048a1b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1ceef7f3-d523-4f80-a0a4-3aed54d3d17a.filesusr.com/ugd/48841a_54a9f53847e340919fd6f39b1235ba30.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://351e5f87-f9e5-4015-92cd-d601692b9ec3.filesusr.com/ugd/a0d0d3_d4a0114f0f344790bf319185787042ea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://245ae9ba-e923-43ed-bc11-30ed5d1acd78.filesusr.com/ugd/051519_c59b9022047b48508ef8b172417209bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e49cd12a-7e53-4a25-9f98-ae37b5ff2e44.filesusr.com/ugd/35dc59_db2f65b188e748989a510f0eeef0e5b6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f395d2f2-f939-483b-815f-81062d4747ff.filesusr.com/ugd/be2697_d44ebab776824e0aaf0954791ce8a6de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4e33067b-0f13-4bed-bb9c-ea95f768fd7c.filesusr.com/ugd/23924c_f3e045f23efa42b2ac1c46c43653606c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0bdb67af-4c57-4a6e-9706-714cc80719f5.filesusr.com/ugd/fc840b_3af2ad9151f24641a6759668b8c09b21.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000eb47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB47 4576 bytes
SHA-256: ac137c7fc41a2ac42196f36d826e70ce2b2d2da3161953157f71ae4ba67d720f
font_01_sfnt_off0000faf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF7 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0bdf1b90780164cd6af9d4138af2c05c83ee53db77fb31299ad04211ccdb7517