Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c59c836f0f6a096d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.7 KB Created: 2021-04-15 02:29:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 063edaa2de954676a22a34b041e29f23 SHA-1: 592cb81555c5ca35bda4679b7bec3753d3180e53 SHA-256: c59c836f0f6a096d532c2c5a2ad1e00a0f6808a5f9619567f7b7c30d74ecbca0
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains or known malicious redirectors, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection, likely to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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=creative+writing+prompts+for+elementary+students In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xipapotug/gckhhRB/68230112991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487665/normal_5fdac4f8b86e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401691/normal_6017224532c25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mitajaso/iujgjge/kisozorufaxorufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rukokota/iirifPg/las_vegas_challenge_2019_disc_golf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wularumijif/1EjdWjc/airtel_recharge_plans_prepaid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494136/normal_6039a3fb76b3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pepupiribojo/xij8E4b/frogger_classic_arcade_mini_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezoxovozabeluf.iblogger.org/islamic_preschool_curriculum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tobipamu/hagfgeW/cinemark_peru_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379471/normal_6058326349ca5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litagud.22web.org/xajilinitazinugofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gisatajofo/iJsiaHB/poem_neighbors_friendship.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379477/normal_606d28a50001a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ximepadogi/JeRVNgi/arabian_drift.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://51f47fa2-20f7-4ec4-bb91-8ae4aee689b4.filesusr.com/ugd/917232_7609da35034444778aa98c37ccb2c2e4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sekusasumoda.rf.gd/pazuvapinewodozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibarixe.epizy.com/fenikotejojewufulalinufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db9acfe0-3acd-4474-be5c-fdc84711682b/sansui_tv_remote_factory_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0896437f-6a5e-4277-8edf-e865b3fcb066/safefenawuzuxenezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2987c0f4-171e-4473-b3f1-a5468658115b.filesusr.com/ugd/75ff8a_efad1dd9d6bd4c26bee304934b657b83.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/257a5df6-0ea6-4419-a14a-5f5a8d271ac3/4th_grade_math_test_prep_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://911f1565-2faa-4874-b261-330d521e7362.filesusr.com/ugd/f46427_47b4a93adc9f440badf6a0970db86bad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aeedc83c-a41d-4179-9d48-e770e4c4cd47.filesusr.com/ugd/e010a7_eebb7c20652c41e29867be674a2ae3d2.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BF4 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 1b2a7a0131018ee0694db71aeeddac4b259d607c4d9c497dcf3e97436c78ca52
font_01_sfnt_off00017eb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17EB6 11680 bytes
SHA-256: b61f673f6425f3ff49e8e5b5315a17e163c7ee9b42f86692b035bca00bb055ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001a5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A5B5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c