Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1017ac27e64cb25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-04-20 18:14:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: cc78019ee33ac88217cf052601438783 SHA-1: d6b78d780550bdfb8a6fb4cb000657293f0c9ebd SHA-256: b1017ac27e64cb25f4d53d2d2f60c28aafbdc8c770e340d46f284c3682f300fa
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=first+grade+writing+worksheets+free In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vitimosugu/9ifGihW/edf_gas_meter_reading_calculator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mowanideju/gbegfhf/the_crossing_chinese_movie_part_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evatopshop.xyz/my_book_of_memories_by_frederick_holbrookf8s0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easterthjg.com/am_i_a_transactional_or_transformational_leaderxhjbp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suxupijisajo/ihhEjh3/blastula_formation_in_frog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxewoxevum/sifjhgd/really_make_virtually_create_pottery_ceramic_arts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ferobisuw/djhYggZ/60323350573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vamosopon/i2ij1hc/lopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mamevugixej/ihxNnsI/football_coaching_drills_for_7_year_olds_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tunuravaxoxi/2VUU5HY/20316673523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daxutoxod/gjbvtgc/jawunobidakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc521fd3-1643-4cc7-bc69-c5edfdd84903/funegaduboselaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dcae7334-8233-4849-86c8-785a17666d88/philosophy_of_time_travel_real_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://968bac2e-1409-45a7-bd11-2c37eba47390.filesusr.com/ugd/c81504_b824cdbf0cd243d1b57b9d07ae311fc2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://04934832-22f3-474e-96de-b9d593e92251.filesusr.com/ugd/f390e7_6d88cc26a19e4c5bb138a8f1727a8cff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f84ffea9-2755-49c2-9cb5-47ca8b55fe65.filesusr.com/ugd/0adedf_c4e1fa2da8944eba859e67d3ad6c6512.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e69a72e-1862-4bb4-88b1-00cb1e5ece6c/how_to_cook_a_whole_chicken_in_my_power_pressure_cooker_xl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f200304d-316b-45a9-b05c-680123ec6d1a.filesusr.com/ugd/aad1a2_cf3144727e394a9f96f43d0a962c21fd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d6504552-49b0-4b7d-b1ff-94f9e1082b83.filesusr.com/ugd/1f0558_88daf5c46ead417daf1b5bd093691b0f.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA5 5036 bytes
SHA-256: d2fe758b38364bc8eac3d1f3a3d34918935bfb5641d47e1044789659561280f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCC 10972 bytes
SHA-256: ea8e5540daf83c89659db320f466df91e3d6dfd2172fb8680c2e3a6d49fa8476
font_02_sfnt_off0001227b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333