Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae89bedd7b05941f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-04-20 01:14:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 196b3ee519af99d1a363f8c1f5ffba9a SHA-1: b165d5f129622e27a5e4429943c73766d187bd34 SHA-256: ae89bedd7b05941fd88f76221b0fd3b32c43b8f3ddf2958797716aab8cbff48f
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute traffic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=what+are+some+nutritional+interventions', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=what+are+some+nutritional+interventions In PDF document text
    • https://tazabavirivagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814173/2445845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413362/normal_60563c5f1cc4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sepetumeba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134601334/jafuvipotijasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446045/normal_601ade3340229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nelixifejesuvol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406681/tetosilalele-xiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413126/normal_5fe547344dfda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367643/normal_600a760568f91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zewadozodatigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134337643/kuxitesakosowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403119/normal_60260809585ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizufawamowimo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134700475/8336566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zodukaveg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135345947/2084101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461511/normal_606093315f11d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462037/normal_60244f7899e16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://182222a4-a7a4-434f-839c-7103b506edb5.filesusr.com/ugd/224a67_aca32d6adc584b72b4863e704b199a46.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9f5bcc56-a059-4f00-ae85-604acd6a3d2d.filesusr.com/ugd/ac9354_29cd619467f84e969d7401e7a7bca49a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1b6fe947-be7e-4494-9a94-f566f178d3d1.filesusr.com/ugd/89064d_cd6c138ca34a4125b6983763829eb4f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c301b42c-deab-4116-afcd-a09dd0728425.filesusr.com/ugd/4bb894_a79bfb2752474fde8d5bb68426ae5c0b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5e6d3f51-9b35-4a29-baf4-1f036254a461.filesusr.com/ugd/99a8f2_16c71a83a2504f7e992dd458f8923b0b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f11c4bf2-12a6-49f8-9590-07a94b689168.filesusr.com/ugd/11276f_609d69f7570341c1b03c30ac7fe34524.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://acfc0e76-311d-46af-9c13-f46c112eb424.filesusr.com/ugd/f90bad_9402b49a6c084396a17a7825a7c7316c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c809e8a6-5bdf-489d-8d8c-df4e4638a115.filesusr.com/ugd/45a296_383f227f3524436aa358ea5e0e798c8d.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_off0000ccb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB2 4996 bytes
SHA-256: fb0e2c2c2d83fb5d84889b3522b0b35c5d586fcc5ba1ef700c99558a9e7c0564
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD92 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 02fcb1f1cb0c9fae453a7889ae6f485ca193979d6e8451acf375d8f4d6baca3b