Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abdb1d4146828da3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.8 KB Created: 2021-03-04 23:48:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: a49d21ef1c96a37946bd22a61a4d3531 SHA-1: 144f47db5d985fa3384e0acf465ac937b7ca9908 SHA-256: abdb1d4146828da347ec0be1b41f62e81eb445f27782a868acaf5c4387e24673
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though partially obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'term dates', likely to trick users into clicking the malicious links. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=cccc+2020+term+dates In PDF document text
    • http://puveputado.sportsontheweb.net/59371404576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/janezewufaj/jb2gjgi/51526631209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duxaromovaxizom.iblogger.org/how_to_calibrate_hayward_goldline_salt_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zugugalepew.mypressonline.com/82548601149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fidofawi.medianewsonline.com/rereading_america_11th_edition_mla_citation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rasepotobami/hbhsigN/69183270341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bebuvasipen/eyziija/zombie_tsunami_hack_ios_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/toxinize/jdXoieF/walking_by_faith_southern_gospel_group.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikutoxe.iblogger.org/how_to_simplify_rational_expressions_with_fractions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdfsdfsdf.shaketorch.com/ruxisedezimaxovujalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dimozakebaba.scienceontheweb.net/namor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jiloduvunilu/chcX0gd/65939803082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xelajuwodaf/rhigihb/88485695133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jojevirelo/eticSld/jetpack_jumper_tips_and_tricks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kubuxakul.epizy.com/cfa_level_1_curriculum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xodubepegiluli.rf.gd/woxomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nalifij/animated_keynote_presentation_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ragejufa/15556044918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juxudawalugevop.epizy.com/merenuwasozijegotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dixaleko/how_to_apply_for_medicaid_in_michigan_for_pregnancy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/satulibaren/46317933168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wetevali/19446951312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vurorevebosexu.rf.gd/british_council_ielts_books_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fojeropiralamab.rf.gd/wojiwixuwafaru.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001679d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1679D 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 6dd66db0c9aa88792545d485d29a10ad8267feb6c8ef9e47d0ad26e3aa43168d
font_01_sfnt_off00019d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D17 5232 bytes
SHA-256: d258670f0ec924d0fdf1c2b9db579b5fab7d7698b8c9697335181a6648a241ac
font_02_sfnt_off0001aec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AEC2 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 1143cbb5e6b79672e218b9b7d098dc243958ef80136b9262096a4739fdabacd8