Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1cc268681d92e8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-05-22 20:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 5e82e95d8050670427703ec354a0a9fe SHA-1: 7599959b9dd1ec1a5adc049bdcb605072d9ed3bb SHA-256: c1cc268681d92e8f21e26dbc1797647b17f6257e67c324ceae8aead2253d1e61
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDFs hosted on disposable domains, indicative of a link farm. One of these links directs to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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/strik?utm_term=una+carta+de+amor+para+mi+novio+en+su+cumplea%25C3%25B1os In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459483/normal_603b50742e488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383132/normal_5fc909dcd459b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebavunegiluzu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134497465/890a9b0eb94650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sebuvijanamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134856810/b20ef82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485930/normal_606e5a20b77ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476569/normal_5ffd1ad7d96f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurulekoteg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134700509/5117e71b6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pojojozujivalim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164399/wuvapobujagilu-xuwetaxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bujovuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738596/3473956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muvarelo/free_fire_diamond_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/somamere/happy_birthday_sheet_music_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48e7584d-4c4b-4cb2-813a-02b9e622b69b/rule_for_radicals_math.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb8ccf57-c6a7-496c-b727-eac98c0c6a25/thunderbolt_mini_displayport_to_dvi_adapter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c09ff135-8c37-40d4-803c-747502234a03/14691250728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8cc00c4-f725-4edc-81af-4249db4d1ca9/how_to_light_ge_xl44_oven_pilot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d4fda2e-a4e3-4fa1-b955-472ba61c28d8/what_are_some_applications_of_human_genetic_testing_pros_and_cons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/808cfaa9-118d-4c58-bb79-80151162e2ae/brother_mfc_7360n_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96c44943-30df-4a15-891c-14067dcd02c0/is_investing_for_dummies_a_good_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a982ba7-4d4f-4442-a266-d14906779d95/2005_dodge_ram_1500_headlights_fuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/silubebebefuju/what_is_the_best_juicing_recipe_for_weight_loss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b025ef43-a898-4c2b-a5db-a310fe8f330f/miniature_dachshund_puppy_rescue_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/betefowubevat/vulotiwurida.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_off00011657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11657 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 52ced79644b82269d68e086b8f8ee88e03549e73c019523006fc3ed01f5f4ca1
font_01_sfnt_off000128ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AC 12292 bytes
SHA-256: 2410c4981e02b378d126886e90b75bfc87a1a44b62b26079e96cc4b9a8d590af