Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9b9c408b7bef62b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-05-01 05:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 44e7836073232b1a1d528991c23358fe SHA-1: a584895ca20668ed4dc41dce527edacc9d37bb05 SHA-256: a9b9c408b7bef62b02fa0213c194f43297c6a944809a177d6cd305b110e09b74
252 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 domains and redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to online gambling, which is a common lure for such attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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/strik?utm_term=doubledown+casino+slots+games+blackjack+roulette In PDF document text
    • http://tramlaweq.online/31586801948hkehc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rogusavonovupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997589/limomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gisepavuv/ijKVgfu/21332795195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranquils.space/51791786564ad3nz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/foradimotiri/hdicvje/susobinekitobupomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/genazeres/hXhbAwV/generalized_impulse_response_function_in_r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mifabawir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776047/ec0a86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xokekujederal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969763/9268931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wexunaveb/aLQigdA/simulator_of_hair_clipper_prank_sound.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wopeduvolevim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776212/nexerazosewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xejexeremiso/uEjdiak/tank_stars_best_tank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zowolanazew/VZxgfxm/bajrangi_bhaijaan_full_movie_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straponartist.com/wefulegawokoganav75jqp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://e942959e-95af-4115-ab05-a6e38533eaad.filesusr.com/ugd/66f7a0_6df592cfffa841e4998cffd098554749.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb71deac-5427-4a11-aec2-6feec017c243.filesusr.com/ugd/4cd983_34457defb47f4798a2c9c5fa0886c162.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a91873a8-1f5b-4151-915d-af39eb211f25.filesusr.com/ugd/3f80ec_46685dda94114b77b5a72fdf62e67436.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1f571a09-6495-4108-bd1a-9715deae29b5.filesusr.com/ugd/b0bf26_6d145199149641faa8bb4416603b2092.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://73af689e-4c80-4f62-99d3-7a886641ad81.filesusr.com/ugd/3b5dd9_69df0e5c7c794128b2f42be72cf00dc2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9fc80a0e-b25b-4135-afeb-9811a1ea6bf8.filesusr.com/ugd/91e123_794f920705d94c2ead89082264a99e1d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d62ff7d9-aefc-4ab8-8cdf-af38868aea16.filesusr.com/ugd/54b9a1_7b33faed01d1409eadfe2d0fa4f6bcb4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://68f2566a-c586-4d15-a5d1-3a72044c38f3.filesusr.com/ugd/ecec20_f13602eeb7df428993c572b21e4fe981.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11D 5632 bytes
SHA-256: ecaae2274c5f30567705aaaa61fd589aae0576989c485dadd7e0df4f1691e234
font_01_sfnt_off0000f443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF443 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 7a65a58024e881fd6f6a9d94d4bbc2b07c6073675f6eba20d51fecc9eb090831