Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ef4ff21a76042eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-02-21 13:18:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 2742b074e910ad832e7d074dd3b2a72c SHA-1: 43533dcf80141403176170eee2befa3adc4e356f SHA-256: 8ef4ff21a76042eb4a454ab285d7b9ab4778d46e8e2a3208fa1753ad1dc08d5f
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDFs hosted on various disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. Several heuristics confirm the malicious nature of these links, including redirection to known malicious infrastructure and a general flagging as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document body itself is largely unreadable, but the presence of the URL 'https://yafferge.ru/wix?keyword=elwood+john+glenn+high+school+football' suggests a potential lure or keyword stuffing tactic.

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://yafferge.ru/wix?keyword=elwood+john+glenn+high+school+football In PDF document text
    • https://dibasipelop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738559/20a0caed6044a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-kvartir-otzyvy.moscow/najojakomuxevivediiytp8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoterritory.store/449520905uvf88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jipujiro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069764/xaruzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koteyarn.moscow/2005_nissan_sentra_service_engine_light6cfwv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomirkapa.site/are_they_making_a_breaking_dawn_part_3k9rg1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbanapoli.moscow/middle_school_english_placement_testpecy2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemotiks.space/ct_cdl_self_certification_form3zjbg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eliyalte.com/yamaha_mg20xu_mixing_console4rxr0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyipinvest.site/puwajarukegosafixeluvufeme27pv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxexamuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134446800/sutedanudelosisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tudegikugil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135317618/757941c02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salebox.shop/jasufigofolow1tzt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonutadeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775355/garedurisoda_soziliwus_xelowemumabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picsonair.com/azure_information_protection_office_365_dlp4562y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullpisetc.ru/zafapifovimuwyohoq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lezanixopedem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886347/faxowevukuji_tetudopi_fajizaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salufisudad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695294/velosatufup_wuwabe_nuvevotudilaw_vukone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000e77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE77E 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 1e4d6f17e9d7885da89b3fcb7074e9fe9fb874eea2593f88b65ec4b117551908
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2D 13668 bytes
SHA-256: 4244d6aa421032553e6d25ee542be8b83e296db7bc813f6814f5092a0d31f506