Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac788b98bf486053…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB Created: 2021-02-09 12:17:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 865d6f8df092e7020b2955239c74a075 SHA-1: d1956e63715d532daaa7ec540ceaaea4d5cf3aba SHA-256: ac788b98bf4860536f46d1b8263fc3a7f7d55c55c88bff06c3a925e3421ba1a4
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm, including a critical finding for a malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, suggests a 'Pnc travel notice' lure, consistent with phishing or social engineering tactics. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to SEO-optimized PDF hosting sites, further supports the attack pattern of luring users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=pnc+travel+notice In PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4384825/normal_5ff58a997e32e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4456982/normal_5ff4caa933a3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479684/normal_6001550332e93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhd-management.space/67814550753nkhjr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokinurelebuvet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856462/tedizilokuxo-ragavazog-mifazojepemere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379049/normal_5fd639eb59e5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450421/normal_5ff112f42c877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakidki-alkantara.xyz/50094119871fgyt5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486200/normal_60069de9796b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deremufirig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854029/relupuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450506/normal_601a0fe6b42bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maewallace.com/79915471555g6ukb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376609/normal_5fe8d04f24abb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4mclaneeffingham.com/dubai_tourist_map_2018kk1m4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gulapore/pafatebudipujabugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/geraromu/tukovubegojuduvironosoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mafavuzenoliki/53458194407.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9F 6580 bytes
SHA-256: baeca65bb3a120388f21807d8a8a57b2511c71e22fcb3663889461a130ec618b
font_01_sfnt_off00011cdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDD 3584 bytes
SHA-256: ffc869e95b0db225d2de6656a0937db31e67528c18bb9bd769ea0991bb128082
font_02_sfnt_off00012980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12980 4464 bytes
SHA-256: 40384869b980761930d2a0048359f7a93368a9ce3e44618daaf73fe4d56f9e3a
font_03_sfnt_off00013865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13865 6296 bytes
SHA-256: 30cba2a75d6d3b80f2456b98cc8dc3f5896fc3c23a4de30144944ee4ee087c08
font_04_sfnt_off000147d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147D0 14728 bytes
SHA-256: 24805aa865ccff2aafbf89bce1dd7294f9635e895aef21777c92b2408fe26740
font_05_sfnt_off000176f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176F2 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 574ea9510da85980525bcea590e9435c8c4c4536432944f290444512f5d8969c
font_06_sfnt_off00018e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E21 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
font_07_sfnt_off00019be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19BE3 6532 bytes
SHA-256: 9095aafe711222916af638e03e9aefedbe58c8c76d9922166f1d737505910c20