Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef8dc3c081bff64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-03-10 10:30:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: adaca08467109bd26daa2ce0c36fd18a SHA-1: 6492ff2e23a2937723e966a759dbd4c3158d0a79 SHA-256: aef8dc3c081bff6443dbd87bfdbfdd7980d2acba452ff82a811370dc06b28a69
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are linked to known malicious redirectors or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/award?keyword=libros+de+auditoria+forense+pdf+gratis In PDF document text
    • http://itfamily.info/riello_array_2000_installation_manualons6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnclassis.org/44123769991py9ci.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soxaxunobur.22web.org/wedding_photography_posing_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyukty68.xyz/holds_the_city_overhaul_compatibility7xxpb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brumbum6.xyz/se_puede_aprender_ingles_escuchando_cancionesrqc34.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/5e40ae23-1e1a-4be4-b7e6-e9c85c7e0ef3/jovarelumiferuriwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5f467dcc-0388-4379-9fcc-4f62d375ad9e/adding_fractions_worksheets_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2cdb368f-84b7-42d6-989d-ee602eff2b07/nedowaxolagame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/872b7b86-413b-4a60-aa32-ba94c5000080/tegirozivasapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ad843f61-c544-48d7-8cfb-3c048b9edb46.filesusr.com/ugd/0dd9ed_18dbf92230b74d1995712e7d758c618b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xawazixe.epizy.com/what_are_the_different_types_of_signals_according_to_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e40da922-b0e4-44be-9878-2d4898ccab21.filesusr.com/ugd/3a38e0_83033462dd734589b43ab36e83ee3055.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a4a4306-e4e2-46db-aa60-21ae95fd6024/menuwixexamanodomofoduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9a171ae-8564-4163-8e82-a876d44a63d7/what_is_the_true_form_of_christianity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuparol.epizy.com/32873784403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6721191-5041-422a-a7b4-83691b08bd56/principles_of_design_definition_in_textile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felobiziwikegu.rf.gd/wozexezodesiremewefu.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_off00011998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11998 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 801445fbdeaaad92132d19f77d6e30f483658e74a6966995864dbaed8eafd2ef
font_01_sfnt_off00012b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B85 12928 bytes
SHA-256: 68862206b19fc07e20ca1a715983e56b41df9a99bed6c741daab0ae994c7f8c8