Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a73ef849ad0cfb64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-05-30 21:37:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 7cf5d03938c8412374df4a98c77a6d1b SHA-1: 1e1977f2cd265d456f0d4476b56fc0f0c3456e75 SHA-256: a73ef849ad0cfb645ae2e8ba724bc22cc4d86524dde4735debd3e7e4f7023818
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

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/strik?utm_term=fortune+500+companies+in+india+2019+excel In PDF document text
    • https://xixusumer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814933/jenapegemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451927/normal_5ff60b4823ca2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462732/normal_5ffa523e626a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450890/normal_602abf061103f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380701/normal_600a9d704684f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxorejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135295822/5516534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waderiraxobo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134505054/sufuleninox-wavemuwokej-xizogosejibaf-fazesulodobake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gibitiwatu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776060/204ce92a2219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408996/normal_603dec985293d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wapinabukodinu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136051982/ce5de1443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462985/normal_5fe4149463476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471969/normal_600dea4491965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446286/normal_601907108b198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420760/normal_6014b1be0b3bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411709/normal_601b38b73d966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495387/normal_6056d571c76d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3737bf9-fca4-4b8f-9571-9aa4ef1e90bd/do_beats_solo_3_wireless_have_noise_cancellation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/72f62e00-99f3-4120-9c12-0cce9eb864b4/what_is_the_deadliest_of_the_seven_deadly_sins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01412885-2792-4758-ad4c-a9ea9fea27db/the_burning_maze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/852efaca-4083-4eca-8562-629e0bc2b80e/how_to_reset_dometic_10_button_thermostat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/28a17693-08cd-426d-af40-e212e92e9302/ragafegi.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_off000115dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DD 5848 bytes
SHA-256: 68cabebd353337a059bbcdb0ad80e82371352e45196fc0edb01f8e592beb9f52
font_01_sfnt_off000129bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129BB 12020 bytes
SHA-256: 87e4b2cf192a078180fb071a03b952f29032607f3cc63e62d526db7c3dd63ba1