Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a120037a3d1fb535…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-02-25 02:14:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: a8318db6aa686af29f6b76f9f449784f SHA-1: 141c51eb6557ae53d0e0a479b89efd4d57aa1fcc SHA-256: a120037a3d1fb535ddcc455e110fdd95dbf97bed6c5bb9867658c93b41b19928
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this file as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=little+house+on+the+prairie+book+series+amazon In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373769/normal_60309914dc4d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365634/normal_601f9948e7bab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426695/normal_60036dc67dcd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388405/normal_602103c679e3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revogofoti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999152/magag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xejopegig.mypressonline.com/a_days_wait_analysis_theme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipegiwofavagob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135302795/veborelubup-veleteze-vofedulusisa-vuzikapafogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabuwamefikulo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398373/40c1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4488339/normal_5fcc1abf3a35d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496602/normal_5feb97a0a66fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379968/normal_6014e040bdcd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475995/normal_5fd79b51cac03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420752/normal_5fd157fc48b0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kudezixajuxuni.66ghz.com/83595853587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428335/normal_6027d1222cff9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452618/normal_5fe1120ed6b15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nogefarixuri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647247/lezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476123/normal_603056404efb8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kapirexazi.onlinewebshop.net/how_many_calories_are_in_a_iced_latte_from_dunkin_donuts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajivagas.rf.gd/kudapotaxadojamepufibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaraberedi.rf.gd/is_the_mamba_worth_it_elite_dangerous.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_off0001023c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023C 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 4f45a8f9e46650a3b08156d351c0744b4b4ae613fe2239e3596359091045e5b0
font_01_sfnt_off000113ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EF 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 062c0ce1e139939a17248e536d106addc72b4996c1cdd109d94cab9a3b33c9fb