Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d8e623c15f0e53e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-04-15 23:41:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 3b11395e6c630102610bef5ddbaacb0f SHA-1: fb1977d87cd0e35cfd312cf6b7fe311e9417d661 SHA-256: 9d8e623c15f0e53e4d90eb0838cbb64648202e2246a4a2d95dc9d67a9a961f76
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary redirector URL is dafemum.ru, which is flagged as malicious. The document's structure and the presence of multiple external links suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=flight+of+the+bumblebee+violin+piano+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481053/normal_60571a695717f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454184/normal_60114897e53be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://segwaywheelchair.ru/64496511781tebec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446765/normal_603a13df998e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watagejikifawup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589749/5349852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidki-day.store/codd_rules_with_examplesuxuvr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezipupokegem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042816/268180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becloud.website/compare_and_contrast_topic_sentence_exampleskhapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496602/normal_606051ab777a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hightrade.club/interview_questions_and_answers_for_customer_service_supervisor_positionm3w6k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esclub.pro/60865116649jpdj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386092/normal_60062ede3f02a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livugazenexaru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607095/jokebafewokaxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://63150c49-9e7f-4923-bc7a-1e4049050ce6.filesusr.com/ugd/cba449_4850d5b204084c9d9b54b05dc2bdbc99.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f04e3f9e-cd11-47ef-a4b1-88c039a550bb/how_to_watch_discovery_of_witches_season_2_all_episodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7fca5364-97a1-4441-b76e-d2c429a59218.filesusr.com/ugd/735424_b13c475bb747467eaf5c9b29e496db1a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/273db870-b732-4d30-849b-5b36d2f914d1/lirr_schedule_port_washington_to_penn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3fa5a103-d2c1-4c51-98c8-4a56640721a8.filesusr.com/ugd/e3c460_30ba4fe624d04a9fabd13d1e71d9b49e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d62ff7d9-aefc-4ab8-8cdf-af38868aea16.filesusr.com/ugd/54b9a1_79c31d9c5c30433d9245aae604139de5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce82731e-af26-4ce8-a35e-2304bbf193e6/tusoxemixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2d841ef3-a248-4e6a-996b-2d54d6713fdd.filesusr.com/ugd/1decf9_704c445a8f654a00a6ccc68cb3149fdd.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_off00010e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E21 5336 bytes
SHA-256: e7c6a297a78ba9b1fca2a19d29b4051ad15c326aa992b74dfac4752e763fb71c
font_01_sfnt_off0001202b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202B 12092 bytes
SHA-256: 153b63afd5b8f603b05a8ab32d230879d6520513dab55aed43e8a3b88aee1aae