Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a443c6c60ef4c2fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-03-24 10:59:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b20c487e875b4a7cea46c3e6379cdfc0 SHA-1: c403f15348ecafb80f70656b42b48dcc320c988f SHA-256: a443c6c60ef4c2fa744a1fa47a1a808a02c5e2f491873aac3c619d1bb5a8ed27
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to software downloads, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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/strik?utm_term=oracle+11g+with+sql+plus+download+for+windows+7 In PDF document text
    • http://katalog-siberian-force.online/manage_web_services_api_versioning0i4hg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigikigopaloze.medianewsonline.com/the_expanse_season_5_episode_4_release_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vutisonoj.sportsontheweb.net/le_verbe_faire_exercices.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saramigubenegit.22web.org/studio_ghibli_howls_moving_castle_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowopezamiw.medianewsonline.com/pizisanasoparevefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesimplycompleteseries.com/utah_state_child_care_licensing_rulespwfcv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenerotisa.mywebcommunity.org/biology_class_12_syllabus_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinzsy-studio.design/fronted_adverbials_year_4_worksheetsciznl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kigetipopizatij.getenjoyment.net/54848791622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galoomer.online/2783529991397zsh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenaragiguvajir.22web.org/lojefuvepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xolokeminapi.getenjoyment.net/how_to_install_swann_camera_system.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
    • http://bezafesu.rf.gd/westward_expansion_manifest_destiny_and_the_wild_wild_west_map_activity_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2f2ab42d-e0b4-4bd3-aa50-2430da1ff5fc.filesusr.com/ugd/eaf48f_12c912b1c11c4b6fb6875e2942054f1e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://katewamopexo.rf.gd/viva_video_maker_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wisuw/jajemimuwevalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judiserod.onlinewebshop.net/45595581583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rokuwapesu/8189181984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://01477de9-116b-42a6-a62c-54244336611e.filesusr.com/ugd/dea9e9_99b95f02d69a40a0a49a404cbb59d831.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gozudil.onlinewebshop.net/brotherhood_of_light_courses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexuvojof.epizy.com/casio_fx-_991es_plus_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://db532842-334f-4efb-8993-e67ec8f20ff5.filesusr.com/ugd/bc5be3_b53dee021ee3475a9a75a50641d3dab7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6a24fdd2-d4a5-4c4b-882b-0f3115751bcf.filesusr.com/ugd/04e6f9_b97c98cc68f243fe92c9457afcb1413e.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000fd60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD60 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 220cfc84bdf21be1e83bc6f15cac6d2d49512b4fbebab4b65d9a9b16bd05d9f2
font_01_sfnt_off000110be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BE 12200 bytes
SHA-256: bac29aa3c7d42f8efce60b5ec28b8132ffebdf191e54db3c21abbbce30d2307c
font_02_sfnt_off00013933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13933 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34