Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aec25f85a0f2efad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-03-13 17:02:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 6f154c96fd722fb1716cb0d556a3b378 SHA-1: 50f5711f55bf1e71e12df86c81a3345336b38dbd SHA-256: aec25f85a0f2efad7977f04bbda1013e2d1eb9a42bfed2f490f6b363b2441c7f
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for a link to a known malicious redirector and a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=santa+ana+college+spring+2020 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490519/normal_6019675688422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minadefimufev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134635785/temevadatakegural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452206/normal_601a8178235c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonitupupafof.sportsontheweb.net/hey_there_delilah_guitar_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457005/normal_5fe267c47a0a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewenafefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012434/dizanenilu-zopinodusunamot-potama-vibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501991/normal_5fc8ea911a00c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilujadaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134772480/c053b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xakidofe.sportsontheweb.net/piwapupujirogekalulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4466408/normal_5ff5a7cfebdc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badosesidexezub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874160/risuropuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuxekagapefe.mygamesonline.org/both_either_neither_exercises_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479445/normal_5fd6e02452c50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407070/normal_5fd9f20b7df57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowowevu.mypressonline.com/xiderunanibokabewaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421464/normal_5ffd1fbe669a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://mukanebesiva.atwebpages.com/sales_manager_job_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://59cf682b-6680-4a08-8b8d-0472bab64ef7.filesusr.com/ugd/d7d6cd_73fa4681db0e4600840c11d8ccb86732.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mobukug.myartsonline.com/runumofiwanovigagenele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://61069a5e-3c5f-4884-a3c7-8c7552058b74.filesusr.com/ugd/0789d5_9a0d3c22c1e340ee86ce10a565ff29ab.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_off0000f296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF296 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 3dc2fa9966a79d11d9210494b4e8864ec8e8ad5d0ec14a2e99f86c1918761044
font_01_sfnt_off00010541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10541 10576 bytes
SHA-256: d4b13a01c35a6affe1b944b4dfa359d084c4f053b43d223d821f7355ec697453