Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb25ea1decc5d4fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-03-12 07:52:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2a60a47a8925530288e305095c7975fb SHA-1: d2b4f35e6ab0a9af73616c25da9131d522f4a126 SHA-256: bb25ea1decc5d4fc0c2725691e9ac112d2cf892787b383f7aca87e2d16c1a537
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'tuberculous meningoencephalitis pdf'. The presence of many external links on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=tuberculous+meningoencephalitis+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wufisosudima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874090/06e530fb6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/puwipaneke/dqvhcjf/48247843538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gawagunikuw/WagdjgE/83520368963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wabirigiraziw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136017191/6448472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404512/normal_5fef139c34c8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sesizuxewewax.mygamesonline.org/popakidimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lijuwezasip/2jdihhf/calefon_orbis_eurotrend_20_litros_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489409/normal_5fe155ee5cb4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vefajuvajodal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136094574/tinutonewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutirojibafap.sportsontheweb.net/58539043057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379233/normal_5fcbbbd3065b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xovijezup.mywebcommunity.org/las_mujeres_que_aman_demasiado_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pebiname.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453048/6161324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://189c2d36-84ff-4b81-9465-96c33c1d3b91.filesusr.com/ugd/35ddae_6698f69652bc46d68fec335b4bb2f43c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cb47f074-0476-4434-b381-5672a365cab8.filesusr.com/ugd/c46c8a_f4f3fafad75c447797488d5523dd3ffd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5984e891-aecd-43e6-866f-efdb297c9c35.filesusr.com/ugd/403565_aad621b86d134b14a41b9e07cf485210.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/desenaz/cheppave_chirugali_telugu_movie_songs_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sixenogafopoj/cover_letter_format_for_singapore_visa_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://992bddda-184d-467f-a815-0165b41a2208.filesusr.com/ugd/69695d_16ad4b45e04644dc889723968c9db3f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pazovugal/business_loan_agreement_template_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kegubinefuda/maya_angelou_continue_poem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawerulim.onlinewebshop.net/zekopimolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://288c7b4b-0494-48f6-8ee2-9dd519b96b0a.filesusr.com/ugd/a107db_ad414dd204574a6e91216772190221ac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dudurat/ecological_indicators_guide_for_authors.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_off0000fff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF2 5660 bytes
SHA-256: e0558c9e9522ed1792e34f6b6036d3d554697d3ac115928adc323cb6039c5922
font_01_sfnt_off000112fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FB 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 31a1935430823bc0e8cfe8326e3e251e0a8db9d43e64995d553db136b43d1b7b