Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f7767ea92b67dc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2020-11-14 08:19:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e80f544f8b6fc40541ae9cb8474f7aa0 SHA-1: 86b851a3939b729850b93a886b2ea3687f3cdbea SHA-256: 9f7767ea92b67dc8d31d548b37e95fe970d78374488e8f65d726ff320c07abc1
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files hosted on various disposable domains. The heuristic firings indicate it is a malicious redirector and a link farm, likely intended for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. One critical heuristic also flagged it as a phishing trojan, and ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

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://ggtraff.ru/strik?utm_term=la+historia+de+lilith In PDF document text
    • https://julupovopanar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134732987/fopotakazimaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobisenuginofaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134490447/gowotukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xitukuwelup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340625/gipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoraxabaxid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682630/kowojemaxitobudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388050/normal_5f9dbc111316b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367627/normal_5f8b350063891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satupagewamikim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584558/27fbaa9db6fe0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retujesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134529196/04a0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapujevubo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438680/nobaxowanipup_jirurabotipe_zisisa_kazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nagafibujur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134514283/2701911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadutixonigonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412491/83643d61d2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://votawaxamudogop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134400347/peremurevuzotokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokopawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493337/4914b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mixekolasum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134388380/5279804.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/3af9642f-4fba-4af8-81dd-27bb7308eeaa/69459576786.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_off0000e93f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93F 4856 bytes
SHA-256: 41a4cdffd90f6b38b56a36c757e5db5a0d746cef8827081654b8264a633a65e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B5 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 2443dc9170748d0624aa026ab87c7b6097150aa018b6b0fcb3c3dd72e8802509