Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f3746ab4ebdb425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-06-13 00:10:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bd42ffb233bd6d3f4781d3de5e051ca3 SHA-1: 68fdb0049dbcf49c76637eabe76a7f6dd89354df SHA-256: 8f3746ab4ebdb4251dda534f2ee53eaadc2167d0bf4796a4783abad0f7b6c321
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for malicious redirector links and a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Behance free ppt template' and is generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to download or access content. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicates a phishing or content-farming operation designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://crophysi.ru/123?utm_term=behance+free+ppt+template In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496204/normal_604e6afac7b93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapowiwowo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776131/94f7c79b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejenugid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016750/1843854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pivisagut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815367/tulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewajevujunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814136/sakupor_noxidi_tixopezopan_gijemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belogakarukulu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502602/sopexevirorizaduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulilunize.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071037/jojedexu_xifuxitisoli_puwefa_zawobofazoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366366/normal_604ad8d4462ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422145/normal_6011a97c35095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471230/normal_602b486d16470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pevetogebika.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135335423/xutinuw-bowovaliv-sijuvudaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidufuzijek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134598689/rogafivubonore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fixalurona.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314544/8022b0a7000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negoladudovas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134456372/a482a.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/c4eff86c-d237-46cd-a7b8-53824c901822/is_java_ee_8_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jivevisubido.pbworks.com/f/dna_fingerprinting_practice_problems_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af6ef585-adf8-4481-aa99-dcdf4b5bba1d/kekaxoruzuxoziwogejamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9cce901b-5892-4a3a-b6cb-a118fd4f735c/3466481607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowenux.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144673749/begegamurumifunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poguvovuk.pbworks.com/f/fozikegurorokumodufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pexovobef.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144672603/75769786850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/060c9fc2-dab9-4366-b1e6-032e3fa84775/6207286063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/280a7112-ba39-4b49-b2ca-6023bc1ec2e6/xupok.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_off0000e0da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DA 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb8649fffdf2efdccb1f3d53055deefa6ffd19cb0245beb2e6bac4b990bd93f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF222 11196 bytes
SHA-256: a37ebf7d12c01209bf8868160cd5bf46a4d2aacbe47f82d6813729ea9007ae5c