Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0cdc2d0600bb59d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-03-09 14:02:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7b5d4f5c3f1b74826b4279c55062bb23 SHA-1: 88d65a1e7d2a2895b17b28948de39938adbb15b0 SHA-256: a0cdc2d0600bb59d7c5ec302eda7ef12317d56a14b7207c5408c7e91f738cb7c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on various disposable domains, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malware. The presence of a link to a known malicious redirector and ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malicious content distribution attempt.

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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=catalogo+calentadores+solares+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://poxapoxidofex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016688/1714052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudabomem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969182/9170328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456122/normal_5feee057a1eed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xefigokilevugez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299251/rurud-sazorolanuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421783/normal_5ff612211588b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371240/normal_6016a74d0ef01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durosokikiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379956/897e3f5c0938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosejibufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134437632/sojurax-berobokomajuw-miwipifexopuna-gekexogexukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizifeji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775372/2a3f44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ledatomonuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134686063/4fa16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413693/normal_5feb94e2bdc07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371247/normal_601448f2d8b16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivisobimiji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134754783/851905f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liziwozubol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134851467/3326412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fovezewi/zarafuxuxitalujejafojotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/045a5a5d-00e6-4708-8e28-befd9eb4fb22/jegafefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kiguteperilodu/87512265564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d08f528-7fe9-4b3e-8e0e-27d37b47d9cf/kejudimubapotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f45da2b-09e2-4004-8071-e3328b048c21/how_to_install_plugins_in_sketchup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a7d9b4c-0c7f-42f2-84a3-6799dff18e7a/how_do_i_use_fuzzy_lookup.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1A 5088 bytes
SHA-256: af18528501a285042c148bd8aee0775a5ea5bbaac04ad5ca23a51bbae78cdc60
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7B 12216 bytes
SHA-256: ce3156f21298db60f9d0568a8db87d70616e6e3ceb231b1c5ae7edceafb52525
font_02_sfnt_off0001342b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1342B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e