Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8a2f8973772a42f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.0 KB Created: 2021-01-30 08:13:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: c3c6dbc04d19a1ab4dd03462a5e7ae80 SHA-1: c11108c18def473b8fcd331d180d988c36707dbb SHA-256: c8a2f8973772a42f91b8ac00a19110d50ebe849306f725b5c70c7e36cd3b8df6
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links pointing to various websites, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The presence of a link to a known malicious redirector further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://gettraff.ru/wb?keyword=stickman%20archer%20online%204j.%20com In PDF document text
    • https://bobifadilow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135295989/migupafodomoxekusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sebupemisopuba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134706320/logetupepepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vebavorosufate.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134742301/9730380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nagipabusodeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453106/jafagibiva_jexobunonasorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fabozesemi/pjgdygi/don_t_feed_the_monkeys_shock_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501632/normal_5fdfd50f8de2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zafozudakajadev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814863/sobavuzukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesasifewom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453969/xavimonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilujadaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134772480/1860272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varnisvakq.ru/41939829976lushy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dixejetafap/jb9ufij/azamara_pursuit_ship_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jedelamodafa/ahbichB/53670336419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000c375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC375 5224 bytes
SHA-256: f25b694b3dab99a1d5a4f1557bd2ac3f0e452b827f6d56f9bf297e821e10a877
font_01_sfnt_off0000d51e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51E 9936 bytes
SHA-256: 65c3c2ad41f03c9a7db443870448eea3c8985295dbbc4add88b96687b64473ba