Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff544f434af7f79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-03-06 09:06:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 8a8f5cd41c0e1878a6c097541c8f2b78 SHA-1: 2edd70ac16f313a4e8633586766d742fb104e325 SHA-256: aff544f434af7f793662ce57610c06b583d96b44c7255d63dfb128dfc00fdd25
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links pointing to suspicious and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. Heuristics indicate these links are intended to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the phishing and redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/aws?utm_term=python+for+loop+continue+vs+break In PDF document text
    • http://mihetos.xyz/piwonifumipidutur2oqh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motirepefasake.iblogger.org/5th_grade_vocabulary_words_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securityofusersdevicesonline.site/zamogonawokuxeky3bwn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealslimitaly-ufficiale.site/how_to_2d_animate_with_blendervknni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ponezivugatub.22web.org/jesus_cross_images_hd_photos.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/018e71bf-b021-4ea2-a42b-e157153dc20e/hamlet_kills_rosencrantz_and_guildenstern_scene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8dc5420-792a-4861-90db-09cfc8d8a7d1.filesusr.com/ugd/1378f5_b0334cfa227f4e8aacf5e108d09d1798.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8488b7ac-84bc-45ae-88ed-26841205fc59.filesusr.com/ugd/7cda3c_cb4bc81224ff442b8859811374cd8971.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://22449060-8e30-4723-8828-967625cce342.filesusr.com/ugd/eddc50_bdcdfd0a4808468da2fd861a7fecc8f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/353e3efa-d631-4186-ab88-cc348b181a07/what_are_some_patient_safety_initiatives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b7b6a98f-e09a-44a2-9ed1-5035a8c1c80c/tesofedasukafepawipuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7737f8cc-5c8e-4559-8319-4ec4441e7172/nixinovobadugixumore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e9abb47e-19e5-4ec2-9f3c-2aa4e6f2bf0a.filesusr.com/ugd/92be99_8808dffbd8d042ca95c17acb54b90b36.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ae26bae5-b1f3-4fb2-a0ba-5d2f2d23988c.filesusr.com/ugd/aec2ea_fc31543e56e24223a69ec968fd7e8b9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/743c0a7b-50e4-4f61-9937-3f23571502cc/death_and_the_compass_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5548a280-a194-4776-8019-0e256783c1fa.filesusr.com/ugd/f2c1dc_88b4c5d549474eeba92af54b649ff73b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d49398d6-4a14-4cf7-9620-8546a63fffbe/52868710019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33fe1336-4051-433c-b691-b763732126dd.filesusr.com/ugd/6c8f37_4411b1a41c2b43cf8496f14eacb8545c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0affdbc-44e3-4b79-8187-150f70e1876c/fogexabilosojapikomafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e71e7e49-fdb0-45c4-bcfd-ace3662a476e/tubofebabodoxubunenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e975ec2a-06d4-4dd4-8e5f-a6e91f92c3ec/22100042553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c3a7a64c-5591-430b-94d7-c2eadfdf3523.filesusr.com/ugd/966478_2db585a581174621b5c2861d4f9f9ea9.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_off00012d4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4C 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 06cd3591999d79c224cc6623b43014706876322a62e2d14fa10837dc911493bc
font_01_sfnt_off00013fee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEE 11416 bytes
SHA-256: d377c2a341bc678d84c11d909a804d3b0615c559221859481fc60154e74c1153