Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c3d80d9c02abc43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-05-09 12:40:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ffaab4d9cb7b486f5620eef7ddba6cc8 SHA-1: 907873404a10e33582b0198611616b006f7faf98 SHA-256: 8c3d80d9c02abc438ebe489606f75e27629181b904a93898f6d96d1657acccba
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 pointing to disposable domains and redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, suggesting the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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/strik?utm_term=operating+system+concepts+10th+edition+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://vitonidero.medianewsonline.com/35527445642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxonegumogel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135330056/xavatefazo-wuxujofubat-soxuxakimubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapadodipelij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164402/vuvatemovijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapitubemexidi.mywebcommunity.org/stock_market_crash_2008_daily_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bopexetijajab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411078/3521287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tazerodine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598813/voguvewojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisujerekuvij.getenjoyment.net/chameleon_care_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jekosupoma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637113/bitawobafovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisujerekuvij.getenjoyment.net/fajabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugosegu.scienceontheweb.net/bank_5_year_mortgage_rates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikusofare.mywebcommunity.org/the_art_of_talking_to_anyone_book_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serewutedirafam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135339767/8598241.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/e541af40-a811-4eb7-80d7-05d96f1f26e9/59354180576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vedapasu.epizy.com/nufisorulibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuwutowamig.myartsonline.com/49376412634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepogewapiw.epizy.com/bupanesibijajibadebimuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusevim.epizy.com/werirewofirediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatixoromagik.epizy.com/convert_from_to_word_document_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5f464ea5-4d75-4372-8971-4ff7282a0faa/canon_mx430_driver_download_windows_7.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_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 5860 bytes
SHA-256: e0ee822ddad63dfe8541bc647491c8cfe95e1c1352f299c209f71348b8fb4093
font_01_sfnt_off0000f954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF954 10696 bytes
SHA-256: ddfc6d31dd657a3a763cbcc92675fb6118bf0c87d2a076a6f50691b28d464319