Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9e923f59a3e4f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-02-11 18:27:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: acf124142b7ec023547343a384484f56 SHA-1: bdde04b92b42ce33494a721a5273625d443b5738 SHA-256: c9e923f59a3e4f099ff7c7e534c4741bb746ef9c048565be5b9782f595eede75
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or spam lure. The embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points towards a redirection-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/123?utm_term=newschool.edu%252Fnew-students%252Fparents+in+august In PDF document text
    • http://it50life.pro/anti_ragging_form_du_2019bdnw4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetiser.website/algebra_1_big_ideas_math_student_journal_answersl5798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kadefevexenikoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813118/puxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lupobikud/Lqib8hj/nogedelafitakadazuxalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapaluletegole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134679291/jofopof-temidimilitetov-nizapudozoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musibagufes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587398/xexejora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regezubigif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135320660/1815504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/najafizox/gehazxk/birthday_card_app_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorulitonen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380258/7458240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diniporugixufov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856235/puwonele_tojajam_vepiwofug_jademugunesobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artelamp.store/modern_deadbolt_lock_setk800b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/janawezexoj/hjPZ8jd/gokijurupoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vopisozojozesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407388/3dda7dd37369612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gasowifozil/Bf9iegf/vovaxomepilamuvifuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tixunudixa/XhjAhiH/interactive_coordinate_plane_plotter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojoxokixen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878929/dekopitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesitalia.fun/94777072701ob3br.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebafanivine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136054257/2146400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fijajiles/fH0jbg0/floor_tiles_for_kitchen_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mifimafonuku/PXhbTjj/eminem_guilty_conscience_live.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bugutaj/wadajaf.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD484 5496 bytes
SHA-256: c8e063b499f9a81599f8a33394a8d5dcd268f04d72df4c5504245c99e5548a66
font_01_sfnt_off0000e75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75C 10568 bytes
SHA-256: fe027e786ebfe2def5afa17004f68b0d15eb6bdee71fe8c07cea8bd375090a93