Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf50b651510b94cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-04-09 07:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 01ea2fd8391f30cccbc73dc724808fbc SHA-1: 49115a123e8bf0cfdcf032f621f6c0cfb5d7893b SHA-256: bf50b651510b94cbfaccb59cf12e1153799d808f70dc0b3444c4ba67102634ee
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to studying, which is then used to disguise the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+study+physics+class+12+in+one+day In PDF document text
    • https://moluzepin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856103/8435074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurujixomegisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745805/1731620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torchqbfl.fun/the_greatest_showman_piano_sheet_music_musescorelqeef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jolosusopafo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134097145/bc0871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donbetosstreettacos.com/present_perfect_active_and_passive_exerciseshy90f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gevivefopunuxaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134331765/gapan.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/8f95c062-202a-4165-b231-6ff96df0bd90/a_pair_of_tickets_short_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbfcab69-cab0-43b8-b861-839d52945da6.filesusr.com/ugd/fa71eb_605b966f4045434f9b003c319074cab3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2cc3dcad-61c1-4442-8662-ca5be7cd8672.filesusr.com/ugd/71b93f_5b04223424094646b8d6244651c0d175.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d0fd53c2-66a5-49f7-a942-a4bfc50892a3.filesusr.com/ugd/11baf9_af4e21b49f3f4146a1abb27be856bcf8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2006ff11-8da2-44dc-b8e2-19cbf0df68d1/sony_str-dh520_speaker_setup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7b902fe-6d32-4ec4-9372-ae5e2fdc6295/navy_blue_jackets_for_ladies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71062f52-d902-4d47-9516-a81bbcd24265/35291571018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eed7fa7e-4f31-4ba6-8269-e73f07ac74c5.filesusr.com/ugd/93374d_641f0c495c744549969d74ddc6053bca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df2040fd-a754-4f57-a56c-66625e9aaa74/42510043913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1482387f-61d8-47e1-b538-9b7f1e8b89fb.filesusr.com/ugd/538d67_0c190e2c2d1c4f7cb80c9f1e59487acd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a662bd39-b3f7-4e5d-bfd1-2a09f2aa0a80/17046431861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65a54978-1d19-491e-92eb-7cd2d20bb2b1/seasonal_affective_disorder_definition_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lolijexejomak/the_lord_of_the_rings_trilogy_movie_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gurowozenupifi/free_college_algebra_cheat_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gidibesuxi/nepal_human_development_report_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gezizefefififa/guwigatow.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f78b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78B 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 7177a14d9315467d5e4ccce66d790c2f07fd13121ef86f942acfca1e93acb353
font_01_sfnt_off00010a0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A0C 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4d73b1c961a4a8101bfc6bea6f755488c87eca2d072fabbbc665defdb25c91
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC3 16340 bytes
SHA-256: ee8b8f013b6f51ea08ae5b70d5412f202f6a9076b23c75f4a41c6f6118619bdf