Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9172895f94864af1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-03-19 17:22:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9982feccff06a825cf9d13b9487ba34e SHA-1: 6eb8f25f3873682a1c3c986aa883feb4c3e2c942 SHA-256: 9172895f94864af17802a01e547d3e06b0682d007dcfbc9950889c33efda7d48
232 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to suspicious domains, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. Heuristics indicate a social-engineering lure, specifically a fake download button or browser update prompt, designed to trick users into clicking. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to download a second-stage payload or redirect to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=android+google+search+bar+apps In PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480383/normal_5fe0d63c6a54b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gawudubigojan.getenjoyment.net/80741927737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslimitaly-ufficiale.site/synonyms_and_antonyms_worksheets_for_high_school0k22k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://organic100.fun/96508271998rjrrj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewogipuwivi.medianewsonline.com/how_to_find_sim_current_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakexig.mypressonline.com/41669700618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ses-paypal.com/781209245543bt94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383695/normal_5fe31cc2b8eb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444351/normal_6028405110d67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esclick.pro/what_does_personal_behavior_mean9dqmf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454988/normal_5ff1f66fe518f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgacessoria.online/8521896482223tsu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/guwutivupudutu/asp.net_core_2.0_tutorial_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6667fc05-5d05-47a5-a002-e1810b0e6f20/17386229309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/verirejon/lorefunidumadegenimojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef12e8c9-f257-4d15-91fb-e3a7d5c882d8/musavixamawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jiguwuzobozobaz/38090702940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/679d0060-f637-4a33-8d42-5940ba8605c9/kematavipixipiduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koradanizepagow.myartsonline.com/what_are_the_7_principles_of_gdpr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kujapomib/39241700454.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_off0000e655.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE655 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 26bfe2bd34f223797c95d76a30ac39a674a1e248f0c5a1b9e3a65d4c17d66bcf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DE 11416 bytes
SHA-256: e97f461cd6b9fc98ccb9ea90a709247d5cfb3dd00aeff94a0b62d6df3e2f8b3c