Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af5ffe2e97506940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

177.9 KB Created: 2021-04-06 01:34:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c26dab3c8ed1a2874d5bff5be1ba1e8f SHA-1: a2b09b4f362c581c916eb0ed0dc4d9a0284ac363 SHA-256: af5ffe2e97506940b5fb32ab3a0bac029211e6243532c445c53c99425b0b4f13
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file is flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to "black hole maths pdf" and appears to be a lure to direct users to malicious URLs, likely to download further payloads. The presence of numerous links to disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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/award?keyword=black+hole+maths+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuvuxek.iblogger.org/xotubixetaxinavulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375887/normal_6026352c18f64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416144/normal_603d1ae7590be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vemazewikale.22web.org/55494730531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://xagunege.epizy.com/38829209797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sidovarodefomi.rf.gd/49022592260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13feb965-79c6-4253-9bb3-b911a954985d/convert_photoshop_file_to_paint.net.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac9c27aa-c138-48a5-843c-ed01125ac007/balur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4da3c5b9-66c8-470c-8ccc-7043260a1ac9/bedidixevuditisozumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuviwobabevi.epizy.com/myeras_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b0bf266-2099-4268-9aff-50e0a80cff80/chains_book_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2cf5511-a7ab-43c4-a67f-04fea6229f49/what_is_the_perfect_form_of_a_verb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e2edd392-a1ae-4135-a47a-1233bff9d4d4/34846139869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ff45cfc-8bb7-469b-9cf3-0dbb8fa891ab/97755695930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af3287e2-c75e-4dca-b71b-ef1ab7807aad/88462648211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wugujub.onlinewebshop.net/mubanoduzozupenuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doriponesarom.myartsonline.com/adobe_dreamweaver_cs6_tutorial_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/945e56a6-30be-48c3-8397-b022c63f9e41/without_remorse_audiobook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/39f05ca1-70b9-4a14-949c-7aba2a85e076/how_do_i_get_xfinity_wireless_cable_box.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
    • 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_off00026107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26107 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 14481ace4780a7c71b5d81c977b75899aaa7129b6f735a7b4c0641fd7c1650a7
font_01_sfnt_off00027353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27353 14424 bytes
SHA-256: 337d4478934b16fd8d9a069c124976ae02964139f52a78283315b1c79b222410
font_02_sfnt_off0002a240.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A240 16708 bytes
SHA-256: 56dcb69f8b45d38dfa6907a28329c627e2c58466ff32c7ab3b3fca4e2279071e