Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b651eb285752c15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-02-03 17:48:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: eb5faa52e134b08205e6d542116b7a66 SHA-1: 355609d60708cf0dd79bed7fb05bd84f316d60b8 SHA-256: b651eb285752c15ca712dff8a4922a8b72bafe66f495dc5a971012b72cfd0b66
284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document uses a lure related to a Philips Avent steriliser manual to entice users to click on numerous embedded links. Many of these links lead to content farms and redirectors, including a known malicious redirector at 'yafferge.ru'. The presence of a large number of external links and the use of disposable hosting suggest a phishing or scam campaign aimed at driving traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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/aws?utm_term=philips+avent+electric+steam+steriliser+manual In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kufomopinu/7jzhg5M/tech_news_podcast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakanilo.club/610704113163k066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sugelama.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134898925/c6391b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kovezozeseg/g1icOih/novoludubinogobawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xogudililavo/idKWig6/picot_sal_de_uvas_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dedejosewor/dbsGjaV/play_4_number_connecticut_lotto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bosamame/ibijija/missing_megan_gallagher.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remastacer.com/9683345494t7od8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellforce.ru/92021270427o7wfm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluhgang.best/zakumubekyew3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomazotesi/0wGgjha/53216304859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavuweginu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681431/bofukatu-xerisebu-ziwuxazo-jazovewokunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zootime.store/roloperusudosizifap8a3zk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobewobezusisof.iblogger.org/fupatewetumababodegepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateguardingserviceagainstdanger.site/pfsense_install_guideg2gtn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pujixefan/QhiiaY1/23921714668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dupemokuko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134759865/8699174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siteznakomstv69.space/xofubewukozipeuc60u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajizaxaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381717/fdfc58f45d.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
    • 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_off0000c6db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6DB 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 12cd6ea2615c2396b9b1a4aae6a940d6999004cd968e5c92dfc0883388920303
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A1 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 0d50fb34ae35144e81147b5a3a81ee540b2dc4e985574afbd1035de85ecc5dce
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB93 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f