Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d4afcb468d17d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-03-30 21:00:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f51fe0e7424cd9a29f21bd84c1eafb55 SHA-1: e7a293dfd51455e17a128e8703e1b30d40b83541 SHA-256: d1d4afcb468d17d882754919f3c85df227ba843730165c58f5e30f65273855d0
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or known redirectors, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The primary malicious URL identified is https://crophysi.ru/strik. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a product listing, likely a lure to disguise the malicious redirection.

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://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=ultimate+ears+boom+3+portable+waterproof+bluetooth+speaker+-+lagoon+blue In PDF document text
    • http://gexopidikimo.mygamesonline.org/nalini_singh_archangel_s_heart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475872/normal_60555497c39a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451565/normal_5fe2e1737c25d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411932/normal_605010fd19ad8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://41d9b059-0b17-466b-96e6-f31a3f3e9b19.filesusr.com/ugd/f1ead9_d627f8ea0a304ff8a1b59612a33bbe67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8aa5dc1-c99a-4eda-9098-a1cc87a2c072/el_coronado_ranch_az.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://07d68bf2-0661-47e2-9ffe-eae068a071af.filesusr.com/ugd/fef806_68d6a96f7253468583a67ffbf1baeaeb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f414df59-d0c5-412c-8277-160bd92acc6e.filesusr.com/ugd/055bb3_5932f76eda2f4007a60f82108a9f600c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/22375ac3-5afb-4ed3-8cbe-2d840e0439ac/losakawaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a50540f-1a45-44b3-9d6b-881543bd6f39/actron_scanner_code_p0700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuxusemo.epizy.com/apostila_cade_simu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3a8814d-9a64-447a-8430-33001ac641fa/risar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1b2c4efd-c8eb-4b04-b26f-b9154d704720.filesusr.com/ugd/d3758e_81fda8246e4342359debe18bada3c6f1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f8e303d0-f350-43d2-b7c3-f886ef13ec25.filesusr.com/ugd/1bb397_361437aedf9d4a26baf91ffb97a78c7b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://soriwolawiri.epizy.com/80559046854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e2760e4-6c1c-471b-a37a-539d84ea9dc9/11965060344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7cc617e-e98c-4f99-a6fc-fd295f8110e3/tidotula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxupovokajaf.onlinewebshop.net/ms_window_grill_design_catalogue.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_off0000e6e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E4 5800 bytes
SHA-256: c17e70b76500224278a307b465e11966f0c60628871558704b91b58de49ec0fd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA8F 22420 bytes
SHA-256: 00ba9a643060ed96b4ffcc6442e155ea42e39705d3ff9bbb889fa2ba8e2f8c43