Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c434cc88c326827a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-03-09 04:44:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a676c75d3173bd459b0f300cc4134d0f SHA-1: d711696c37de518cbdcfc6a347464f04b7c0f78e SHA-256: c434cc88c326827a278657d4fd0625053b0ab7ca839ed870c1ad1ca2e50d3f5c
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm hosted on disposable infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were extracted, the embedded links and the nature of the PDF heuristics point towards exploitation for client execution, potentially via a spearphishing attachment.

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.
  • Image-heavy PDF with invisible link to suspicious domain high PDF_SUSPICIOUS_LINK_LURE
    PDF is a small image-heavy lure with invisible link annotations that send the user to a suspicious high-risk-domain URI. This matches credential-phishing carriers where the visible document is only a prompt and the real collection flow happens on the linked website.
  • 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/123?utm_term=allen+test+papers+pdf+neet In PDF document text
    • http://fifamarketbot.com/20052212509mtkzz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jasurisunav/rgchagc/clash_of_civilization_book_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vetukalujir/cRjiPia/carriage_house_inn_aiken_sc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379229/normal_5fd70ca067883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386084/normal_6038eabcdef08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikecortez.net/what_is_greek_religion_beliefsui3tf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagram-support.live/grade_11_university_biology_textbookhlq8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demask.fun/17234876927fjkd6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naxawevuvesij.iblogger.org/ponamatuxeladutasatitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412380/normal_60001bd324821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vedice.ru/colonisation_game_guidejs9ip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealslimitalia-ufficiale.site/pudexufekaterozutalitap25h4x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vuremekewema.rf.gd/advertisement_worksheet_for_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6cdf8c5e-36a0-4b6d-987f-32d3d50030cd.filesusr.com/ugd/3c2e2e_b64a86f0732d4946862274ec53443d66.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://98748e4b-3258-471a-903e-8ea98415cca0.filesusr.com/ugd/fd7405_17ab784b4d014e8bac53424e2094c598.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zukanimi.epizy.com/biology_notes_class_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xafonabikox.rf.gd/what_is_the_difference_between_press_and_journalism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xerozodofuvu.epizy.com/49116435669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b304dada-1952-41b2-af44-d16a3232bb3f.filesusr.com/ugd/c19c34_434227e3a6f54691bebef9e0f30283cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://972af30b-04c2-4618-b911-83ba0b7fef9e.filesusr.com/ugd/84a5c6_a32672e106d6440089dbca8dba586cd4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://070488ba-e3d9-4c74-834b-445551f5513c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb83f1_566c25a916a74baf8c3aaaec00cfc868.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
    • 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_off000102b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B9 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 26c579aba80da0343c91462dce3e98428cd3ae726e7e7e616223c49453342a80
font_01_sfnt_off000113df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DF 11080 bytes
SHA-256: f17471fe78bb3803c13f7d2feef7fa40579ed83ab390a0eaa42642c39bc5cbfc
font_02_sfnt_off000139ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139CA 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6