Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d129f163d8324288…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-01-25 18:45:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 47fda364b1ba71caf3238e7e2b410e49 SHA-1: c8a6500a0407afb859982f7bca8a8d14539ee757 SHA-256: d129f163d83242882120c1c7483bea3b17a7328091eb8e02a34477efd3718efb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable domains or known malicious redirectors. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a strong attempt to direct users to harmful content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/123?utm_term=ucb+improvisation+manual In PDF document text
    • http://gmetry.online/star_trek_pinball_machine_valuejoivz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/manuguwe/eIgjqhg/49819437721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jomigivava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135330213/2966854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhl-order.info/38420172716swgk7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalanuso.iblogger.org/aliya_janell_free_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kewekekonuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134732265/gibebibazikosazisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabedowilopore.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163579/5199101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weraka.online/43086211198bk2hf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vutexexukus/aWiahYU/61649590913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/besawevij/hhjbkD6/juzuzibomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://titegerekarirov.rf.gd/76670292249.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC838 5032 bytes
SHA-256: c2e0176ddf40f38584751c779d4a48f4f1dfa1f801b105a9bdebc89200a12cc1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD931 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 03d365a5d2d0e4646012daa1a3dae42252e7adbd1b554928bad7fb32daf6d5a4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF67 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333