Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fd787af69dc6d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-03-24 01:00:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 793406aca5a87bb80d6fa437b4ea22a2 SHA-1: d1ebce92e5e5612b27b8fe0fcff08e5caafac9f3 SHA-256: 9fd787af69dc6d3e514a649c0eef82b7497db7b52c7ce5b93c29d85ac8e737f4
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple embedded links pointing to known malicious redirectors and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body, though obfuscated, contains keywords related to game downloads, aligning with a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=borderlands+pre+sequel+android+apk In PDF document text
    • http://dayzcommunity.info/171693258197kphz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465252/normal_60325c1ceae5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pakavoposot.22web.org/multidimensional_array_in_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463810/normal_6019b9d9892d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378379/normal_60051492b3875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456391/normal_604b84ccd7b41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bofejaxo.iblogger.org/rafuvesutegadiwexoxowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470679/normal_600c70946d8c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416789/normal_5ff364f737a6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramverifiedbadge-media.com/bernardo_e_bianca_1977gnnbe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatovapotogu.mywebcommunity.org/62166495552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paypallsecurity.com/maytag_epic_z_washer_troubleshootingz8zj9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408330/normal_602a73b1e4b25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388407/normal_5fdc2f78dae33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinemulawaw.sportsontheweb.net/zozopeputuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418191/normal_60025e5336d51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413226/normal_5fe2cf67d35c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393044/normal_5fd2caca756ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wugupomovupa.sportsontheweb.net/cost_behavior_and_cost_volume_profit_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sale20.site/present_and_past_simple_passive_exercisesxzsmx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAD 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 150c1dfe304536005c8bd932fde3d618ad1dc9561419b661905a5bf78b80a6cf
font_01_sfnt_off00010e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E66 11892 bytes
SHA-256: 4d279cf6d995960d347cc02ad4202165a1220fdb8ec30cf0b550df54728c9bd2
font_02_sfnt_off00013684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13684 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 2c5f1a2e3d9f683f6a217a47aeaaae813f7d4ef732a5ff54a929695507d09140