Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e771e9f7b0521a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-04-25 17:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 3f2a017ead3acf3d2f622f34fc854fb4 SHA-1: 444e2471427b4bf8b58550227d3a64cde942beb1 SHA-256: d0e771e9f7b0521a5e0a21524031e43a1f367630df44f22c25ee8a8c9f52685a
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, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirectors. The primary heuristic firings indicate that this PDF is a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, as evidenced by the critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM alerts. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URLs are likely used to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=will+there+be+more+game+of+thrones+books In PDF document text
    • https://lanulizuxuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134658029/4796688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kosojilufut/jiij1MM/best_space_flight_games_ios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450641/normal_5fc95b57872c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lobobofu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134680821/jomupegejo_nimokuparowader_tidapigilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368998/normal_603065797700b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sufusaripowo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437865/f071f6997bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bunigenozav/dYghcn5/jelly_youtube_subscriber_count_live.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471514/normal_602733db118e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rojarimeg/hhhWsjg/97715303001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zizudenavoxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017195/c512b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wepomifid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134676114/wepatilidixezibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sesalon.xyz/kolerenafagawigasoviruldhf6p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369509/normal_5ff4bab0590b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nemoludajedu/eFpKShE/top_20_petroleum_engineering_universities_in_usa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proflist-barnaul.ru/33298549890ttgum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoomita.fun/butterfly_fly_away_sheet_musicdz83l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://90ff81fc-98d9-4e53-96a3-aaa5c1c2042e.filesusr.com/ugd/bb5aff_3148a25406724cc9a10d911fde275de2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://777dd155-384c-4f1d-a337-8f27b94bb056.filesusr.com/ugd/1ecdae_26a1f9f1f4e04f3d86f62246a16b5f4b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kefodek/pilgrims_progress_for_kids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://02bc4616-4eae-4b38-b2c9-0e654f754ee0.filesusr.com/ugd/069df5_7490e3c1492a41259c2434f59b199e34.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jiwisi/bepezusasurigog.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_off0000f30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30A 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 029b8b292ce8b3e9cc6e5895702e5bbe05561db6aceca665dd3d26883be6bc1e
font_01_sfnt_off0001054a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054A 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 97fff08cd4e4b8108b665ae89dce2a5c1171a06202ac6736141db8547bd867d0