Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae9d3caf13e0f24c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-03-15 20:22:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 392e89bb53197ac572ab7799cf48e2b6 SHA-1: 99ab0ca6f4d87bd5de040952f48d549747db486c SHA-256: ae9d3caf13e0f24cc7cdbcc93060816dd9cd379c8cad27cda9605d2250d78092
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm designed to redirect users, with one URL specifically flagged as malicious. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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+measure+plaque+index In PDF document text
    • http://boburokopuxixud.iblogger.org/prefix_suffix_root_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nalivugubogepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969323/jetonatawijemur_dapunajenema_sawolupejoviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xubupigegi/sgc8jaL/suferux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tovisegag/djhgdig/agar._io_pc_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazonenebu.22web.org/cd_banda_calypso_pelo_brasil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vodemilofokuse.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235674/1461246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bujiwamovul/dhfiahd/carmageddon_reincarnation_steam_api.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widosutolitidaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134847614/kowukazone_nubared_bamoj_wibobixinali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/godidudawat/j8FHZme/zombie_chasers_book_8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e653615-15e6-433b-ac98-e924f4a515cc/bosch_axxis_dryer_manual_wta4410us.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7b2acf08-337a-4e95-8f07-638997341006/befizanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fc06435f-e709-4c80-b59d-96fa470c1a13.filesusr.com/ugd/bdc04d_b69e2d11485d4bd4ab2316d3a9bc5fba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3176e400-c268-4dc0-8d69-08eae86937f8.filesusr.com/ugd/ea2f88_e3bc687cc9ae404cbca544891f14327a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://wetowotupime.rf.gd/top_listened_songs_on_spotify_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4e82d7f6-c6e0-4c4d-9e26-26a59bd7439a.filesusr.com/ugd/7dd30d_ddd565896b4f4f6989ad2fae0bc42422.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://savikolapuxol.rf.gd/ps2_army_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edefa294-c65c-46c5-840b-8a4669b9fdfe.filesusr.com/ugd/e4a001_3aeeb2a19ac84680b90b8531c111942e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/54c1077f-de6f-4070-b96e-615ea4a6af2b/thank_you_for_being_late_synopsis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1d1c4ac-cf1d-4c58-861c-45d1188f4b60.filesusr.com/ugd/052f3a_50b3c9b96cf84128801bc3b453407e87.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://994180ce-385f-4272-9833-4a204a825e0f.filesusr.com/ugd/ec0c41_0d69597f60624d768a8b6d9f9c7737fb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2a085669-a8dc-40eb-b1d3-71ea9d660f60.filesusr.com/ugd/cafc24_60ae50fee5eb42499d2d0785e1588027.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000134b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B2 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 881eed314ddb97f78dfaa0fd82e0f493a6a832fad9c24cf7a37f4af9eff6554c
font_01_sfnt_off000146d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D9 12380 bytes
SHA-256: 58025e6a75c0dce78d603045dc9e5bbcebe74b484541d6456ca1b75856609e24
font_02_sfnt_off0001701e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1701E 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 99ddc6f5858eb134f8024171ebe717cbd02485c31471b921a5021903b5272953