Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c880aec38b29c776…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-03-16 10:16:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: c24af364a6a784ac23823eb57ee48bf5 SHA-1: d00bea60d1b93b14e7b757a607a17a268fa34626 SHA-256: c880aec38b29c776b24876f47b1c7721686eb046196327413d6b78c07145d32f
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'dafemum.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an exam answer key, aligning with the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://dafemum.ru/123?utm_term=bhu+answer+key+2019+pet+entrance+exam In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471085/normal_600f44082e4e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459481/normal_5fd9bf85d5ad2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446029/normal_5fd8ba7eba26a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371246/normal_6014f4c687eb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370087/normal_6001e41d807c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dabebasavus/OCxggAA/video_camera_for_computer_best_buy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luwesefizi/cvjbkhe/61026007599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387433/normal_5fe97e6d554dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470211/normal_60130c99972ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dewufidabo/gfm8xif/57179752829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://73099f28-10d5-4558-98a1-2f8dc61f1a2f.filesusr.com/ugd/f62eaa_2efcf3e723c7462f8719644e12121585.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejikefowu/cake_shop_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://75a697d3-84f0-44cf-bab9-f05e37020c50.filesusr.com/ugd/7c3584_9507c1f7b26d4d7cabdb2f43888032d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://33fe1336-4051-433c-b691-b763732126dd.filesusr.com/ugd/6c8f37_ef064d7678184b4b81e0bf93f5178c0a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinigugaxej/boulder_dash_pc_game_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topufopotu.epizy.com/final_payment_request_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japaduvovudaku.rf.gd/talathi_bharti_2019_online_form_maharashtra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokubuxopid.rf.gd/boy_in_striped_pajamas_movie_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuwosil/american_truck_simulator_money_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mudurixo/the_raven_by_edgar_allan_poe_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawevuf.epizy.com/what_does_a_systems_security_administrator_do.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
    • 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_off0000e499.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE499 5996 bytes
SHA-256: 02dde76a2e8dd000356e8ebe3ed544f4d7367a20745725d84fa6e25f0f0ce56f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FD 11308 bytes
SHA-256: bb6fff21d1dc7e2a1c2df403c2c3a6c47c64c3cf0fa4d500941b9e674cc5be5b
font_02_sfnt_off00011fcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCD 16232 bytes
SHA-256: 9750395ffac39f5159ea3c54b13638906787dbe72f50886aa97261a75759c88c