Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58ca45cb94a2d14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-05-18 00:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 6aaf1501d1f369dc7a4ea38ff76b6df0 SHA-1: ed4fe245ef3dbc4057d0ed3f4ddf7ef7c74ce63a SHA-256: c58ca45cb94a2d147bbb308f8346b84f25bd8a29a48c17c4012cc243b7a48f4a
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting or redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=cabify+driver+apk+ios In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368999/normal_600a570a62895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xugubevowasisof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885616/89c96717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zefimaral.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776827/fupawileti-binubufawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopejon.iblogger.org/53559514481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425010/normal_602b97eb557d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pufukowog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583281/4fdbef5ca3b351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454984/normal_5fff40a1de400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417537/normal_603d1534cd729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fea5da60-225f-4c2f-bbc8-96860fa1a158/10901460606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timevexow.epizy.com/ringkasan_belanjawan_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c9ef5ff-fb61-4e24-8d0f-045fd3863bd9/fallout_4_new_vegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizanotafogibag.rf.gd/nitofabalefuweratefogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2fea803-93c2-41a1-bb5d-9f04fb7e05a2/fapogegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bujepefu.epizy.com/73501012243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/99b44cc6-0e81-4d37-adf5-cf2c3dd1a973/which_god_is_powerful_in_hindu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonopexurobuma.epizy.com/25946541096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1841552a-1cc3-4496-ac4c-63ae2c38e6f9/waxowemuxogilize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35e4802b-bbdd-4716-8676-0c75e68994c6/divina_commedia_g_dragon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec1d907d-ca93-44fd-b5d5-e7f3db46a4fa/historia_de_la_lengua_espaola_rafael_lapesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67502b69-9868-4a66-ad02-b4eaec530bc6/jiwirirusuladeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c84f496-bcf6-462a-8acd-fa21d12bd1d5/the_best_digital_alarm_clock_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a872cb5a-5b34-4338-ad2c-b0ff1793f2e3/gubupozezebadu.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000121cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CC 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce5a7286efefc5aae27ce1c31b3347e159d00bd30cf97f509a0b7f7d49caffb
font_01_sfnt_off000131c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C1 5272 bytes
SHA-256: b96e7fc08a3ff4879cafde572f32440994f5d82a8caa0e0afe731453a7901741
font_02_sfnt_off000143cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CB 13816 bytes
SHA-256: 0cc2a656aa7a0516152c2588bc965ee5048402ee84771f68cfa726a23e9f231f