Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bf6b453cf6201dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-03-31 17:31:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f35c574d798c4b26b5685d90bb3a45e4 SHA-1: b2812ee4ec54d62068190106dc4f3a7bfc2b16f5 SHA-256: 9bf6b453cf6201dc4b6ab822782a3f7730d960615b63888a4b7e4921b781e0fd
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious or disposable domains, including a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=comma+worksheet+high+school In PDF document text
    • https://napudipeludade.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344161/xevojipavo-nogizojoxemasus-jibetiwajuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukapim.mywebcommunity.org/public_management_salary_in_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domavera.ru/a_guide_to_managing_and_maintaininglanre.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moxawitab/gfXgiiW/failarmy_2020_july.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jutalufelex/bN9hfhh/dollar_tree_careers_official_site.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/depifozopupe/Vhjhhbi/t_mobile_plans_vs_verizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snegny.com/leluxikibofu68ajr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medebupima.sportsontheweb.net/28073915817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/muzolorakow/dgfytgc/prison_break_full_cast_season_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/resilano/ijhgjg2/37795686735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/widafopaj/jdVA5dq/dududalaravajibifoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogranicbio.space/16898656015017rd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allerlo.xyz/9523748441696v8q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giligigava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494785/4d186fcb5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://973697ad-ffa4-4f9d-85cd-0c9d1ea039ee.filesusr.com/ugd/5f5755_aad44a263679483c89528b57dc9ff124.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_01072078016d4638ade63970790ea5cf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://92fa68c6-d088-48c5-94d9-776fe0504fc0.filesusr.com/ugd/5a053b_65a2baf804a6458d81c0152e56d0b1a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://965bd944-310b-4209-a71a-d16e45aaced4.filesusr.com/ugd/5f02e6_5743207b822a4cc2ad6d523993d12849.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://41c240d9-b4af-4f88-8fa4-2a41cce3a287.filesusr.com/ugd/01bc73_9bdeff0e75934e0e900c2520260b7fb5.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D7 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 80f9336e78178d1c27f25d3db088556a77f310e045419b606a28990712bc2ac4
font_01_sfnt_off000106a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A9 11312 bytes
SHA-256: c49470a4d51927a04eaa4725ab064daf76ce8df853b89169cb6db76b3d1cf5e7