Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2fb53136f16c1b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-02-09 09:56:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 6c6c0e958f0a0b8a5bc03ff4d8188bb4 SHA-1: d6db6213515fe7c4216a98b26399333d83078437 SHA-256: c2fb53136f16c1b1d2873927dbe051157fa8e04f3c9085e53f858e8aec9800c4
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that redirect to potentially harmful content, including a known malicious redirector. The document's content is obfuscated, but the presence of a large number of external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://crophysi.ru/wb?keyword=domain%202%20expressions%20and%20equations%20answer%20key In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pixafosabow/hcUcSih/jimujizuxepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4420597/normal_5ffdb5df3439d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://witowufagefalob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738848/sejimuxizefozupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xekejegixawo/gdijhhl/soccer_ball_juggling.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418987/normal_5fe1493ff23f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tizesefetus/ageQgeK/57408374123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gufogejerujog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/mesazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/modurasisuwu/9Pjghhe/ncert_solutions_class_10_science_chapter_2_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitecheat.xyz/leed_ap_bd_c_exam_prepw2sjk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezexubuxerib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040893/7774984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415526/normal_5fc9dfcde6a21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lexelinowe/4hhcYgi/29987955575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jifegusewe/ejejdds/28238186414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digeforoxega.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668277/dulidepumura_goxirigobigo_boseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawobelif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135307193/a85ecd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jagakutojut/htFgcig/red_white_pew_pew_pew_shirt.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/fumiposamisur/5722664529.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_off0000c910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC910 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 6d20831d27897b8472a4703c5351bdce829c4157b349956999aff7d5d5e1e9ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5E 10160 bytes
SHA-256: c5b94518b7cb60836a4fb224324e4801796348207d3e631a24a66968dcbce99f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF76 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 8c1e3298cb301b6aa2c2aeff0a89e1cafee6626e56d5ffa98ad52a7598c40df9