Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e4b4ede8be3b951…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-04-13 09:41:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7e1a09d21d45c79e614b1ae90266520d SHA-1: da594a3eaa89df7b1f0a213b5eebf1445b196e97 SHA-256: 9e4b4ede8be3b95196a3e41281440ab2a794a44dc9d77f6085ed5dcf04c57050
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a 'Dyson fan' issue, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/strik?utm_term=why+isn%2527t+my+dyson+fan+working In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424026/normal_60375848359ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480876/normal_60616cb780d1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmicgig.com/word_cookies_cheats_daily_puzzle_2020g7l3x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385850/normal_5feef51227c27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390323/normal_60261b9a534cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453901/normal_602f41c176463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408009/normal_604bb9bd19b80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mandarins.space/cards_against_humanity_online_examplesfvr2z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384320/normal_6065986343b51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476282/normal_5fe4af9296456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://useraisins.pro/best_calling_smartwatch_under_2000um0x3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403948/normal_6063cb784d6e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vknacruckalaikov123.xyz/silefodarezmtdn4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trastqort.online/why_is_projection_important_in_dramajjgp6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367959/normal_5fd967d28f482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369916/normal_5fff53fd136c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368486/normal_60368fcedd363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418981/normal_601339a56bea4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openchambre.xyz/xidadotuzixobagerikaowmj1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469824/normal_60446bb1cfad4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459034/normal_5fe3a4c2ac01e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c17a48fb-5d66-4a56-a633-fc011b8e6d66/faxuxigexopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3bc5cc7-f4df-42e5-b896-47975c1f7054/54292820872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90156202-2757-44f0-91f9-fb433a68aee9/the_waverly_inn_menu_weybridge.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_off000101db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DB 5596 bytes
SHA-256: e489ff72892bccecb117677e7b5a327eeef1fa2a091ee61a043828d64d182e38
font_01_sfnt_off000114ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114EA 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 83bf4ec02000280a0962b43206dfc6dd95c327aae84a198ec3b219a5880ee91c