Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91bbf97bb8411d8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-03-24 23:23:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4e60ec00400e1282190c219cf0e6ea83 SHA-1: c05798222f6394d0efbf489b0f94958a129909e0 SHA-256: 91bbf97bb8411d8fdd4581acb9baa347d1f8d5dab49e268747a8c1147ffc975a
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure. The document body, though truncated, suggests a lure related to a 'voucher application form'. The presence of PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection, strongly indicates malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/123?utm_term=voucher+application+form%2528+vaf-+1+manual+application In PDF document text
    • https://sudateneturoxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322726/f166a55f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezotu.xyz/teds_garage_menuf7kma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://todayshop.website/what_order_should_i_read_the_mistborn_booksou3s4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djami.ru/the_village_barbershop_movie_reviewchi5s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toportt.online/xabaretinojoraritobudumky9y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gratoram.site/attack_on_titan_season_2_episode_summarynjxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banukusisazej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134893357/lalifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapalane.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968981/376df9fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gordei2d.com/excel_search_value_in_multiple_sheetsqhhn0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamipakowoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814468/fifelevita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selectgetc.top/website_layout_template_illustratoraauki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobativ.mywebcommunity.org/marlin_22_rifle_model_60_stainless.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wepijafiguwenan.mywebcommunity.org/beatriz_sarlo_una_modernidad_periferica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtechnika1.ru/tosuxesolr0m23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://republvinb.fun/logitech_k400_plus_vs_k400ri2f7n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://006b50d4-ad2a-4261-8279-34542eb0d7b0.filesusr.com/ugd/a640e9_ec3499f8892e41ffab031969ef466d69.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee6bc897-aa08-459d-b6e6-b1b1d69fcba1.filesusr.com/ugd/7ba596_3e4faa729a394cdabc995a3640374579.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f730d15c-1921-46d2-b6d4-288333e40990.filesusr.com/ugd/e2c223_0179dff9cbfa4d2e9ebfdcaeb0d3336b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gakilasefit.myartsonline.com/medical_certificate_format_sick_leave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenezipulugiji.atwebpages.com/excel_vba_copy_range_of_cells_into_array.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1b53f64c-3596-40ff-86ea-95cec8902569.filesusr.com/ugd/838e7e_298f1b8ba4ce426e8e166fed4a3c282e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8641c524-1fb5-4292-87ed-dd72f64d6c22.filesusr.com/ugd/9b7d8a_2c429d5ea7944f79bea6e5f78dd27919.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6fd4412c-3e6e-4f21-a9af-8137ffc6c0d9.filesusr.com/ugd/03469c_47c61a856cb74df7aa910ff7c4cfda57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a001dc82-f31e-4944-9b76-0a8e602b6855.filesusr.com/ugd/e4ee87_d328bc3ec25342d3b18d819027a7fe7f.pdf?index=trueIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DD 5144 bytes
SHA-256: ed1f3f3a72967166d3d579be2614a02886eab20440026f7f940d0c0d1aac716d
font_01_sfnt_off0001084b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084B 10980 bytes
SHA-256: a0a1197b4070b9a23c39bd6e8b6b40ca45480cc69e3a2d50814b2b53c7a4bd20
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230