Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf5e7e20436d03c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-03-31 11:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: cd25a06831ef72cc6998a6a97a923af6 SHA-1: 45a783e82bc48c90dd5cdb18a2e05d07ff691a94 SHA-256: bf5e7e20436d03c112e065733ab889b59edcfbf47bed8a35ceb9defa2a4b48ae
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and at least one link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain junk data, suggesting the primary purpose is to host these links rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://dafemum.ru/123?utm_term=big+sean+overtime+song In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391314/normal_6033602d69c71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416136/normal_60190321c8e3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laropavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585926/4141984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damanula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856109/tazoxakabegebepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497344/normal_6052cc03c2bf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxapogetal.iblogger.org/68711561206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468536/normal_605fbc3dd23f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modalidetefid.iblogger.org/recirculating_aquaculture_systems_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisakusutel.iblogger.org/e_grading_sheet_deped.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://1618b3f4-dcc0-4047-a816-eeb1cbe43c51.filesusr.com/ugd/a01749_d87131c2537a4d319fc8b2ce2d4439a2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/522b58b3-69d1-403a-b9e3-b40a2c9d9bed/47081335936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://43fe4710-460a-4ad3-90dc-2dd795c51528.filesusr.com/ugd/a32c20_e9731382e4014015a0b96bd7577eda5e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b18674e6-cfcf-421f-8754-e676836f3932/epic_emr_training_for_physicians.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8bd0dbf5-62e0-4684-a95a-1d9666dfa34a.filesusr.com/ugd/e71694_f8ef8a31a3544d8080a6d387e658f386.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a8d7913-747d-4bd4-8a1a-72d11b38d6ce/76565779598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://82f7a8bd-e2a3-46ec-bdf8-dd4727f017fb.filesusr.com/ugd/a90de3_99dd8952dd9e43e8afdd7d5ecd256dd0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b34ff297-9e5d-4f56-879b-6f4860303e60/how_to_clean_mr_clean_spin_mop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a8c0da6-a03c-438b-8d3a-7e5439c99a27/miduzojaxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://835a0401-7144-467e-aacc-710587930ffc.filesusr.com/ugd/432cba_4ae9ce6b805c4f80af3e0996d8172b1e.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_off0000eec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC9 4872 bytes
SHA-256: 5c4248fe6c149bcbdf54bfeb604d8bf3e0ca4e35563c3629165b9a3405e94b7e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3B 10752 bytes
SHA-256: f0a776894f0009220d1acb5ab36af64349ff632e73efb4cc8a4b9fa30d0a6cd3
font_02_sfnt_off000123cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e