Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95a9cff1e3c9830c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-03-23 03:40:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 3b4c10953ccbc771d44a4cb40d9597a9 SHA-1: 66734421acc0f9c51a55518f6317cda58ab294e7 SHA-256: 95a9cff1e3c9830cec02ff34903bcc1d4c99450fafa1b976762fae66ef91a765
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and contains heuristics indicating it's a redirector link farm and a brand-impersonation phishing lure for iCloud. The embedded link directs to 'dafemum.ru', which is associated with malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a detailed analysis of its specific content, but the presence of malicious links and phishing indicators strongly suggests a credential harvesting or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=ca+ipcc+income+tax+amendments+for+may+2020+pdf.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=ca+ipcc+income+tax+amendments+for+may+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawonidoza/ijcw8jj/find_my_phone_iphone_icloud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/terasovo/chfbjdJ/bobafizesuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tamotewewo/2O8Mhgg/organization_chart_template_in_ms_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelenege.iblogger.org/how_to_unlock_a_locked_tracfone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gixotagokezu/TpKjgl2/roadwriter_lite_songwriting_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pubodegosog/ihCV0ge/nepivuzinuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7lessons.space/dewalt_dw715_type_1_parts9qcho.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/totafeta/ficgdie/used_coin_pusher_game_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitukotobov.medianewsonline.com/auroville_news_and_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rureroso/iggeq6m/freeway_traffic_rush.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yazansoft.com/is_there_a_new_harry_potter_bookparg3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gesaxamadew/hgqicie/26317318898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zivodelozino.iblogger.org/que_es_placenta_previa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rumafelaneli.mygamesonline.org/15982025357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiboxul.iblogger.org/nodoxixasapemonugorisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pe50off.pro/tear_soup_storyunnil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b0xberry.online/6191831703hq0t3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kotoweraga/i1jfji8/24385729829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kewomoza.iblogger.org/berenstain_bears_collection_42_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7lessons.site/employees_only_beyond_this_point_signs_printable3evgz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivudanu.scienceontheweb.net/zajorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zanotunuzi/ibifid2/blackbody_radiation_worksheet.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/tuzakifezara/jutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanosebezazov.onlinewebshop.net/what_causes_you_to_get_pimples_in_your_ear.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasisag.epizy.com/transformation_of_chemical_energy_to_electrical_energy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/farefasejikap/viditetotifekizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jozaponi/rexosetixemi.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_off00013698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13698 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 3015e6c12e4e18eebebb68241173a6eddc66e5c2bef2ab9e65109ce2c6db1024
font_01_sfnt_off000149aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149AA 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 86c192093b211494b71c34f1c976e16611bc7832b0af2c2895d9e43fdaf1e650