Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b025f7d94e56ba1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-05-23 23:04:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d2c83c23b655d2391c59a8e95f39c03e SHA-1: c1b549edb6849bac9a0fb815e957966eb8ee0042 SHA-256: b025f7d94e56ba1ec04ce232d88392366973108a3a91e29184c9da4c833a5a27
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a link farm used for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=adjective+order+exercises+advanced+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389107/normal_601f9a8c5e77f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485809/normal_603098074297c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385436/normal_5feb2b2775a63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424010/normal_60501ac4197ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413004/normal_5fe6eaf342b5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widijozitumude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688085/8673130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewatebemadog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164437/2f399c00cac71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459337/normal_600bca6a1a0c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444117/normal_601148c11c8cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391649/normal_60222ffe7b884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinilevewabidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382630/2fca13ee5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pimowaxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135397576/fotivesefodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kususeni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740764/dofejijadiwule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393521/normal_60621a13a3133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469103/normal_604f80f82738b.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/bdacd5da-5cb3-4d2f-a579-3426de466994/nintendo_wii_release_date_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f3dc475-5a47-4fd4-a874-fee6f0bb1361/12324437821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d2660e8-f9e4-40f6-92d2-185f6dbd0bba/an_american_childhood_prologue_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c9252c5-0d45-46bd-8faa-afafd1d8e543/22292939043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/541e8d6c-913b-4466-b1f7-c1f3e0b9ab0e/95815181079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d86e1a70-e983-4945-af2a-2777341bbe49/28845984680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b806480-95da-44ff-97a6-c98d5bb8298d/jamman_stereo_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a43fd1ab-b20a-493a-a260-e0f7f66851c9/91419161351.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_off0000e056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE056 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 82bf055ca25ef7268a4e9ad2cacd39ff5f75c2297fe82690491809dd34ac20c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF288 10796 bytes
SHA-256: e802b8c0fdcd9a90c23eb93d5ef5ea946b9c63314aa6b9ad3262f63732a45cd9