Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69abd4409748113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-04-11 06:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 90efbd4aa071120a9ccfda97b3c11805 SHA-1: d9093bac12c4a20b6f4aafa899561ad28705833f SHA-256: c69abd440974811303bb6973664d48cad4f213646fa34443990e28b88dc8e3b1
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, and also functions as a link farm pointing to numerous other PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to "Where's Waldo" puzzles, likely a lure to encourage clicks on the embedded malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/strik?utm_term=where%2527s+waldo+puzzles+online In PDF document text
    • https://viwoposiruxeduz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633276/5365788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sipebililofo/aicibhe/750014231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuwusemob/ChJqhfz/maxeruzigijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokesaxigalul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776824/944bf8e4e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guvevifowo/hiUFshe/lavisitudibefularur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wawizaliw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133986908/zufaratexepevun_sebuziv.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://s3.amazonaws.com/dadupawo/99450950581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/napisakaluja/rajkot_gazette_online_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2c9641c8-5874-4869-9b94-f1378e60aa6b.filesusr.com/ugd/efc1f6_60e3f48fb21e4b4299f72d9deba93480.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99ca13e2-8bf0-45b2-93fa-bbfb519f101f.filesusr.com/ugd/5392be_175d4cae69a34a27bd2bcb87287029f1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://38aad9b5-7a72-45b8-ac81-9fe73ce82000.filesusr.com/ugd/08338c_70761e00c01f4393a567dd25add9ca90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1801fa0f-56e4-4894-8452-b8e06651d4be.filesusr.com/ugd/868401_7ca85db824f74849868e0e01dbc17d34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xisefowu/assassin_s_creed_iv_black_flag_ost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubigireluj.rf.gd/arsenik_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cda84be5-0c54-4c05-8389-97bb004c798d.filesusr.com/ugd/fa9f00_7b8ca5a2dd2b44b78dbb2ad8a6ef8172.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c207dc97-0cc9-441e-8caf-a702c1639d46.filesusr.com/ugd/36abe8_4a702d8a75ae426db3c1f6222d7e8115.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b634734f-67aa-4edc-9b69-dcf7610e4690.filesusr.com/ugd/c86859_932e720a76094da98ba1600c8555ca10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xizokokov.epizy.com/love_yourself_answer_iphone_wallpaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pupudewasoxo.epizy.com/lagu_barat_123_net.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b46c4cda-4951-41c0-816f-bbf02eee4d9b.filesusr.com/ugd/4ff992_a1a7aed8af2e42b9861ac9c841ed8abf.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://taduzaxafoguj.rf.gd/cauvery_water_dispute_upsc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zinudipir/class_8_english_book_download_scert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://76bf42c0-7447-45ed-8dd3-33f9786ae3ae.filesusr.com/ugd/ba2c19_3aab90b867be40139065cc6163131008.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_off00010246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10246 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 37913f910f0959af351a6969a6def701cbdf3a1597da155f3aa83729b6136d9a
font_01_sfnt_off00011373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11373 10876 bytes
SHA-256: e9a9425923e7bcbfdd6477ab77e00c3aef5eb442e6d7bcd993a3b19ea44fb780
font_02_sfnt_off00013885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13885 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176