Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac1a6f20d8f0ba86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-02-25 19:41:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 716d0527eda3209082b8695791ed6f29 SHA-1: 2be3e0919128f5e0afeb984981f44ac49527fb94 SHA-256: ac1a6f20d8f0ba86efdc205853c0d86925bc96b83862d20538e7f7718946269b
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagged as a redirector link farm and a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, designed to redirect users to malicious or potentially unwanted content. The primary lure appears to be a guide on making paper roses, which is a common tactic to disguise malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=how+to+make+small+paper+roses+step+by+step In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vavusiwi/QheetqC/44474759357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamidotojo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858916/pasosenibopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pinofizulag/90iih02/robert_frost_quotes_on_death.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boxorefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969922/72e0f19c4b7c88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kisereta/eitgiii/jurassic_park_survival_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kewawukufiju/gChbYih/45807639579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/widiroje/gfgdgfk/international_superstar_soccer_2000_wikipedia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metazoaapc.fun/turafilolasonevopuguxaktczqv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagipuzato.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776724/8ce99c3ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/merodobiweve/R1JaQlx/spongebob_tickler_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wepunajexiju/LuGigxK/madhubabu_telugu_detective_novels_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nizekidido/27Nhhge/zegerexija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fufigavaki/gh8WiVV/show_me_bowling_alleys_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fobojuwof/jbheghD/iot_space_applications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xobiduri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437628/vubawadevoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://resizov.rf.gd/48947355140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigukesege.epizy.com/adobe_illustrator_cc_2014_trial_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banolepepo.epizy.com/66446651694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vububogux.epizy.com/camel_in_face_alzheimer_test_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limidiladafa.epizy.com/physics_chapter_5_study_guide_answers.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_off0000f7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BE 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 619e96544e1ea8d40ed24f4e08393cc3d1e82549b4d7521ca8d707c5248f8462
font_01_sfnt_off000109cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CF 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 9da8b414583804e7cfbf623b96b3731cdccd33460c8587ef1cb803a80d80a84c