Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dbb9224d9167eac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-03-14 00:55:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: ae7c4078b42163624e651a30fc9fdba5 SHA-1: 8bd65e7c3084b0362169d22427623aef18b1f25f SHA-256: 8dbb9224d9167eac922e8c70cbc6821b39ae2c609f4e78f3a266e963e6a9c7dd
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the embedded links likely serving as the primary attack vector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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=bissell+powerforce+compact+bagless+vacuum+21129 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jomutepe/hRUTejV/sukiximepowubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xitukamobem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134643312/rubivuwe_dumujizodibam_safogujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443814/normal_604002ef9cca1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bezamefiparafu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665790/mufokarafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383679/normal_5ffa29a2d9313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375339/normal_5fe94b9e09294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rixosadiv/gJifHiy/alto_s_odyssey_soundtrack_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenikazegalo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379965/3185708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gowomawabude/4ibPicy/bopixosaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitevugumosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134526644/ac82aad6188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490122/normal_6049b7f9b6392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagigokes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739756/gepezalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496597/normal_6041bb5a8797f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://88211235-bf86-4d40-a6ec-a052db2f682e.filesusr.com/ugd/94e5ef_a919409aef67462e910319f7493b88f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f93383a8-0a82-4f6e-8b07-f1ca55147dec/2006_john_deere_gator_hpx_4x4_top_speed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ca6b24e6-01cd-4368-a310-1df05077a315.filesusr.com/ugd/11b39a_89d8a74a54d8459a8bd22854cd64fcea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wovedukevikov/51850138902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bubisifapagefe/rusonuvuvanetonobidofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dibedamoka/heart_of_darkness_a_filmmakers_apocalypse_watch_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33da92c3-26de-4f6b-bf12-1693cb6a6e79.filesusr.com/ugd/0307f2_dcc6cb581ab348718b32bf7909679346.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df53c16b-d59b-4483-ba82-860b4c037323/86723037961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jupudizadid/java_android_bitmap_to_byte_array.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pizexopenaxu/butterfly_valve_assembly_catia.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_off0000f336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF336 6016 bytes
SHA-256: c89f2afce36971c643f40fd08b7f40fd9252c13d9f45c2f306d9eb260ecae0aa
font_01_sfnt_off000107bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BD 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 044d2c922704c189e9e68089fd45fc59dc3572ca561ef9ce9517b21e2cd80ff3