Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7f56156a8b3b2d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-02-08 07:07:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 1a42d1b13fb5286281a07007ec4c9c8a SHA-1: ed5b1ea50496bcd6f19d0cc68505a33866f4342a SHA-256: a7f56156a8b3b2d2d4dfd4d5a2220d9d2401e8f249bffb6e2eea2b2a1d337f8e
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services and identified as a link farm. One critical heuristic indicates links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via the linked content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/123?utm_term=midday+gujarati+epaper+mumbai+today In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/litalile/Jje4ghh/sailing_race_timer_apple_watch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixagebama.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738507/50fb1f575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bupogoduvokog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690502/xikaza_xezubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mepowokugo/bajcjel/puzzle_emoji_apple.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kogiwonewaveg.iblogger.org/vusonobukavuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420924/normal_6015bd1fd6bd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tigixexaxi/ghaF9ij/65038211852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nivunufozub/RhgKgco/73124724212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410013/normal_600bb26c4b240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tujurexi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134743655/lewofuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lefuvaguvupawax.iblogger.org/year_3_reading_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • http://www.indictrans.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://besikinugid.epizy.com/christmas_song_jazz_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kegipufi.rf.gd/kipajikewuzugosugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rizibapuzaduxe.epizy.com/black_demon_slayer_guide_osrs_2018.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 12

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB6E 5392 bytes
SHA-256: f426c141f71728b22dcaa5e2981afc83507325ff40b09e4f8d7779336637cd01
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC3 2656 bytes
SHA-256: c206ac4eca120f096112d408dff6b33a2f721090936d80486df636e1cd240fde
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C7 4540 bytes
SHA-256: b98cb45cbf9393f7484e45c1488e583b58da534a6e8b0650b47393f6f9550aa8
font_03_sfnt_off0000f76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76B 3048 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb619f7e4c8d10c6650d66271e6db770d7def95493d885be3efe54e7c100c22
font_04_sfnt_off00010379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10379 2328 bytes
SHA-256: 3702365b3034b9d7945da23b991b5e2ac3f8bb06d1ba3be7e5ba1b5d8dd48c9f
font_05_sfnt_off00010e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E32 2604 bytes
SHA-256: 7f3a1ef136f36ba68bc36e5bcd31de243dce7f4b60e01c4bc40f508baeb48ca0
font_06_sfnt_off0001194b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1194B 2108 bytes
SHA-256: e66bd646ff29f48b94a898642357a1d5295b77faffa0bd70eb77acb4aebc9a97
font_07_sfnt_off00012320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12320 4336 bytes
SHA-256: 87016e8933cc862d1d188edfbee698abcff8178ed3d6b510b61737ee02f60284
font_08_sfnt_off000130c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C1 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf539a370ac51bf2d2452fba79a6c03fda4d1e9d42d391a3bc7113d3801a34c
font_09_sfnt_off000155cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155CF 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 62b0478e3bcacaeb9df6fa0984507e722920f7489b4d5e25f45df3fdf1e55086
font_10_sfnt_off00016b1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B1A 3068 bytes
SHA-256: d0dd857a9826ac979660699617401cd1e95953a75b054a38f043ec33b990a0ea
font_11_sfnt_off0001776b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1776B 2608 bytes
SHA-256: c4869f4910101e9de114603d80c87e7465cc14a3edf423f39a6ef78b10429b6f