Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c0d231d7ed3ffd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-03-19 07:30:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8976e84d96a9dd2cf43ef86695c6e7cd SHA-1: b1c4d4232180bd0a9417857d3f9c2ff4d48db4e9 SHA-256: 8c0d231d7ed3ffd3b8b37b639ece6fc6b6d9cd484e11632434211717b0fc9460
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'ghost stories in telugu pdf download'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or deliver a secondary payload via the redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=ghost+stories+in+telugu+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428069/normal_5fdb980873da3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461791/normal_5fc7b43a3d9d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilubaxubaxulu.sportsontheweb.net/tintin_comics_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwazumusef.scienceontheweb.net/kexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jijomaj.getenjoyment.net/el_alquimista_paulo_coello.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baludofagufa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096440/vanamarixam_dogajivuvizok_zowis_weradov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369630/normal_605358d136273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414500/normal_5fddfec0358b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xorabawik.medianewsonline.com/89473235550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wubajepetodol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/792522229983c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zozijopese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997316/6043370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaxifas.getenjoyment.net/98417641495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiziwafofekaku.mygamesonline.org/lovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winovigamaj.mygamesonline.org/70865588058.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/6cf19c08-4707-4d6f-9596-4f4d1b308606/fatosopazezafijabapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7882d43d-6c74-4dec-b088-0ae97783373f/hp_printer_5520_error_403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajulugebimisu.myartsonline.com/hasil_bahtsul_masail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4779360a-150e-4da1-a292-519617ce73fe/pride_and_prejudice_and_zombies_film_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/154a08b0-bbc5-4d5a-9dba-505ca729e3a2/how_to_use_log_table_for_division_and_multiplication.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f42c4fb-db24-4299-8fc3-7d173034f1d4/20662010486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9da3aedc-40d8-4ea1-b6ec-a4a5a77d36c9/terigugexejakonovimovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shorl.com/hastyprodenyleIn 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_off0000dbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD0 5428 bytes
SHA-256: 1b06ea2a3e8111321934b49346797b719f2329ec0d272c27e2ae1c2374f485ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE52 11352 bytes
SHA-256: ec9d30e94ff264ff21b0a1e6b538fda064de03e840808973e5873d59c947d8e3