Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9316a3862a050445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-02-19 14:00:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: e5e7d417fcb0d89463584d5de81c8aab SHA-1: b729f47e7878b93f79208c2a13f13f03edbfbaf8 SHA-256: 9316a3862a0504459f814d2ab8059e3646156068c0e755a49e553bfd15142b18
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains and redirectors, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malware or phishing sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are characteristic of a malicious document designed for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/123?utm_term=fabozzi+fixed+income+mathematics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kersita.space/30932199330y064y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulalenabeparuk.iblogger.org/acumen_dash_cam_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urro-hu.com/26950811809tnjkn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457604/normal_5ff1465125da2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421215/normal_6015956b34001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serudifatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324897/705718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jofised.iblogger.org/fajafegetukonorakegezabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuvekodufunat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135298648/sakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383334/normal_5fee370ce7226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fosevikotik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637163/861129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapodulasopo.iblogger.org/56244375901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447662/normal_6007df4ed1f6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digonowokeke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/d0b9b2b00c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolmag.biz/64440794672u8b0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daisywobzr.rest/fatal_fury_special_sega_cd_romga3zx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijixedi.22web.org/47778309737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4376612/normal_5ffac6d12656b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470683/normal_5fd7b327df284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xudisoda.66ghz.com/kimewosonefujavezomobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lodubesemo.iblogger.org/impreso_disconformidad_alta_medica_inss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://pekagotikoweguf.epizy.com/daban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenezonel.rf.gd/13266233209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jesebikalag.epizy.com/odisha_job_information_2019.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_off0000f8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C2 5480 bytes
SHA-256: e83cda82a74dcc2bbd964de589c559a5e09eb5d61b2dc363dab2b3aa3e0ddd62
font_01_sfnt_off00010b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B51 11464 bytes
SHA-256: ae2c19e8b22937f15d9a036e78d9e590f24ccd011e519b2293d1b27a9862963e