Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a873723031b903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-03-01 11:16:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 62d1ef7d2c6caa993fdb0a8fd8aa3e52 SHA-1: 09a600edabf927fe1bf4ed8e82e8433d31f6f489 SHA-256: c0a873723031b903a90efd23669480292f5dba8c18ee9b50c9a8f879a010ed3f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical finding for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded links, such as 'https://yafferge.ru/wix?keyword=three+battlegrounds+francis+frangipane+pdf', are designed to lead users to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool sometimes used to create malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/wix?keyword=three+battlegrounds+francis+frangipane+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dvertsoff.ru/13085307073infuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vash-komfort5.ru/67426069956f2zex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomudepalak.medianewsonline.com/how_do_i_connect_my_hp_deskjet_3752_printer_to_wifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471509/normal_5feaf845c64d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufofol.medianewsonline.com/el_nombre_del_viento_3_fecha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pimifawimonidij.mywebcommunity.org/62667596189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wemuwetafivaxe.sportsontheweb.net/ludugafovebewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuzobinemipivor.mygamesonline.org/hp_probook_6555b_datenblatt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xteenware.online/7th_grade_additive_inverse_worksheett0oso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462075/normal_5fd296f643a00.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probmaka.tech/dirawepekemogxf1a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375514/normal_600bf01359b7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444371/normal_6032a25995d78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalifajebuxog.scienceontheweb.net/31373090958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383464/normal_602b506f770c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373997/normal_60240f4ae0fce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vulewonatetil.22web.org/how_to_write_an_essay_in_mla_format_google_docs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodyita.space/aapl_split_announcementoj5rr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://kaxuwenewutexu.myartsonline.com/pioneer_avh-x1600dvd_wiring_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tifilow.onlinewebshop.net/bojack_horseman_season_3_episode_10_script.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_off0000ec59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC59 5504 bytes
SHA-256: d42ed1ee8930ee6a9fc41dee1b6f8428b8accbebbd55e86f4a5563834afe00f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF04 10476 bytes
SHA-256: b38c7d07b38ea5bcda2f3d3bece92bff35149d8f03886e1be0641686528f4cc8