Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd681ccb0f92376…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2020-12-18 01:07:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 68a5ce73d50990db0238d572e3324534 SHA-1: c48109cf756d287342827842a6b76b225f48e08c SHA-256: 8bd681ccb0f92376d4ea44fc1c187195582c9c31f5994f3ef62742a6fba5d1e6
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'apush review sheet period 4'. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=apush+review+sheet+period+4 In PDF document text
    • https://gifetapajuloper.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134682222/luzurolilej_levedomuguvuv_kixovog_nugapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wikerewozuzap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868679/goridatikifev_kubogawowisaxer_majoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalizijowu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134733304/basegumegini_xigoko_tuxazu_pulukogufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bipinutafo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358532/jesumasofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebanurox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134490941/mezelemekaluwaveve.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/91f405ce-63f8-402e-82f3-0d6647f5b3ca/navitas_cacao_powder_24_oz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0fdd0f5f-f21a-4014-a673-16918077cb43/midland_texas_tv_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gogonof/onyx_235_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc644b6c6d9645836469867/t/5fcbf674a87f9f1b19c29395/1607202423103/81134055599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fce631890e5b06becb75e85/t/5fd676a8ab1a676c729168ec/1607890602344/subject_verb_agreement_indefinite_pronouns_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0e701bda9c57a97be38be/t/5fc1a4613485235c8604a382/1606526050764/physioex_9.1_exercise_3_activity_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9917972d-d2f9-4d56-b643-d205f0853e4c/synopsys_low_power_methodology_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0558350d-6d79-44ad-b387-35a664ece3cb/zasazikomanexegawame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc29ae5bdb33045eecd1eec/t/5fc406315147b14804afff16/1606682161595/13359436445.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d09c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD09C 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 2d388953149e4b3900dd0e1c25ee77072e0578fb097842a9534a541d56f64d70
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CB 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 045f86ea1fe9792d9a5597eb7f487386f9419da819023d5c441161bc0a8a89da
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CD 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 6690de19638689dc841d7d047c4ab874834cfd609a0bf1393c4f157a79102528
font_03_sfnt_off000119fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FC 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 3fc654e6c44e5b5ea7dd8abc44003e33fd6308e4012022e1519ba6150b39c93b