Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a172c77182dd1cf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-05-15 11:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6f4e90097013e7b0a4d5e1c210b09af1 SHA-1: 3dfe30de9d02b64103b2f3e78b870c6667d8c523 SHA-256: a172c77182dd1cf1814dab580353b424e9328a289e9259295113570bb74504a2
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical alert for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure and a PDF SEO link farm. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically pointing to a malicious redirector. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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/strik?utm_term=samsung+un40j6200+disney+plus In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407988/normal_606ade3e4d161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wijelukifap/ggQwh86/mujijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383300/normal_5ffd39ff9356a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zarifabidit/Whe3AFO/nature_wallpaper_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490542/normal_6069483cc5092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rikopekela/9fZRvih/animal_crossing_black_road_qr_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lilaxikixo/vAijcol/stampede_pass_washington_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zasokolof/egiShe3/72376821589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/patagarinixa/vhczojd/cooking_master_boy_123movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jagux/jovebitusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b585837-9263-4696-af9d-6af205f89b87/the_yearling_chapter_15_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70e8b6b0-1f21-4342-ba51-bab2945461f1/rock_cycle_worksheet_8th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/82f2a1e5-be47-4145-a177-155a476d1dbd/what_do_i_read_after_the_last_olympian.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vizegemawokaxe/2751586911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://493f174a-a540-412c-bacb-e5b7b26cbfcf.filesusr.com/ugd/95bb70_81279ee31de34932aa19625b6992be5a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://43081b45-6e48-4b43-b724-9328fda377ae.filesusr.com/ugd/26481d_54f34b190a2948b7937fbea2372e5bc1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://80b1f93a-fe74-4439-a81d-34814fa7a505.filesusr.com/ugd/e56fe2_7d93a5ba488d4c5495b7ff0dc8a4cc9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f18b8dc1-3ce9-44bd-8712-01435d039869.filesusr.com/ugd/b97cba_e351381ec54841d4808f6332a01994fb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e21f0dd0-e693-4a2a-aa38-6cab66162128.filesusr.com/ugd/34eed6_45c18a9c180b42beb1483dcd92a036c6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56c20d5f-6a27-4512-99ae-32390c698fd1/ipod_mini_battery_repair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d2e1e8a7-9e6c-48b5-a280-5de9f4ade488/puvamutogilinobalinemete.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_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 5980 bytes
SHA-256: 87ccb5d534a0730fd158cab644feb20a4844d615cdf5ab98fff43861439cf670
font_01_sfnt_off000101c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C6 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 71f0910645366efdf10cc6490a9edd663eadcaded0ba90012e2a99015028db83