Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f7b48bca60048f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-03-14 01:54:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: ed9d31eeec1d9f81b20fa6dfd1476e66 SHA-1: 2613dc587735383c2f2e03cb27b525c339443d1f SHA-256: c4f7b48bca60048fd317a886dbe1c09daed1800a1626b16855b4a806136e455d
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=zestawienie+czas%25C3%25B3w+angielskich+%25C4%2587wiczenia+pdf`. Another heuristic indicates a large link farm within the PDF, suggesting a SEO poisoning or spamming campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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 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.
  • 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/award?keyword=zestawienie+czas%25C3%25B3w+angielskich+%25C4%2587wiczenia+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475727/normal_602ef67f6a648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382773/normal_60073e49ef82a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417030/normal_5fc85a3eda2fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491436/normal_5fe1c1200cb1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382186/normal_5fc86199ef317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potenciy.xyz/bosch_super_silence_plus_42_dba_troubleshootingc3xqa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtampshop.ru/jutetadu0bcbm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461791/normal_5fc7b43a3d9d3.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/lolijexejomak/30030335578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4bd9ed84-c80b-4837-bb2f-b1353ebfd8aa.filesusr.com/ugd/5a1791_dacd738dd1ab460e8a61d3b71f090940.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://04a9e765-cf69-4035-9b9a-998d8fb4e692.filesusr.com/ugd/8c5016_84bb3a88d2234ae9bc6a803bd1ae7b8e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9b704b87-3668-414c-a24e-b30400fe0e33.filesusr.com/ugd/51c472_83812bfce589486db61607b8e86b575b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://43081b45-6e48-4b43-b724-9328fda377ae.filesusr.com/ugd/26481d_c5cfcd4e023a4820bb360b92c7c90cef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1b6fe947-be7e-4494-9a94-f566f178d3d1.filesusr.com/ugd/89064d_87d43896bef343e6b59897f0259a9b7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec8c99fd-5413-4e38-b6a0-2ccbba71fc6f.filesusr.com/ugd/de02f3_eaec29c579a74273b95024c5f11ea1ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woxojuxafopuv/ratewumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b89c0965-50b5-483f-b67e-52f573158f4f.filesusr.com/ugd/1e222e_e92530ec0075434ab40aebd388f61bce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://510b81f6-be4e-4e40-9acf-3f60af495837.filesusr.com/ugd/5f226b_9f1d5e894b1348ceac0f886759313c77.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://28546a20-d0cc-4b82-bb4f-6711990cd5a3.filesusr.com/ugd/0bcf16_b741695d4810482492252836d4663e4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4454cc88-256b-48ad-9013-c0414c72072d.filesusr.com/ugd/67e251_dd8a3a14ef2e40ce97bacecde46653c2.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E1 5760 bytes
SHA-256: 85b9cf7a1997c9c6b0277941769da8792d58157f799ee34e7607d7fba90d377a
font_01_sfnt_off00010a0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A0A 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 43c6a83f5b7c0f89a7bc8974bc3c37d5e907f8f103f8ce672643739e61f25c4c