Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf5d43af0d492913…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-03-20 06:34:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c0985668f09651c9f4c353d3d2d3db43 SHA-1: 9a432b6238f32baff76675fc84c18ee13436ef3a SHA-256: cf5d43af0d4929137380017f295c9358172172bb3270b95fce9e36dd99310043
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics indicate malformed streams and a high ML score for maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=30+minute+seder+haggadah+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4461511/normal_5ff1dcd321b03.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfhgfje5df.xyz/siruthai_aararo_aariraro_ringtonepito8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sixojifez/fifgdEs/zoporopanapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-kholodilnikov.website/80350018811q7b2y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gefimiwotux/cjhie3H/loop_taxi_mod_apk_android_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410731/normal_602497bad858b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376609/normal_603a5e967765c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ygrash.website/bekibal4mlhj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4a7d9d2b-1d67-446c-8d6d-bdd3043d1f60.filesusr.com/ugd/c3d078_a1e1d85402894ea59ae6accdc6db2ca8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de4a6500-567c-4bee-8b40-828df8ce285c/24061124301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d395b71a-d13e-4f5e-94da-5281197e531c/hp_officejet_7612_wide_format_e-all-in-one_printer_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e590c0d9-b694-44fb-9862-47327b30d8b0.filesusr.com/ugd/89363e_29ce16142fe242469b654be444389951.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e8becaa-aa80-494a-9968-635987e7e062/70769620305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8b83640-91e4-44a0-a69f-c2468797902f.filesusr.com/ugd/ee4a13_fba0dc405a314c08bfb9634479fd56ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_8f7c8b6c270d42edaaaff43594d31b5f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4788fb22-2f39-4b5e-a60a-6b3b7626cf20/76351518112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5ea5456-32c0-4910-8c4e-244932c71e52/city_of_thieves_book_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01184126-a4ce-4e97-b507-b4d0cba44c09/kebodidaxajonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c548bd34-7631-4730-947e-fd21ef06b629/machine_learning_con_python_raschka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/30e29c4f-1e88-4158-ac73-6631e75c640c/how_to_put_my_delta_crib_together.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a644e08c-9ede-4770-9057-16f1e6ca54da/79493478715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dc58184e-bbba-402a-8e08-a55d552c8f3f.filesusr.com/ugd/0ebc1f_3aad1939a20843da81e526a6745a2712.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC02 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba052dac9f420158e6e0d4015614cb081bc9676a95fb8fe40ca692240889a7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF05 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 3d66cf19bb3f5f564551ac9f13a7e52de9c6efccb43f8f1538fe2a833320cf51