Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d399f48c0c68ed11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-20 23:11:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7fa1c3edd52f45fc248f31356da80078 SHA-1: 118943041391bf5a19330a60f77138d758ec0392 SHA-256: d399f48c0c68ed111475f17d18b0477c59b377d0c59e51f3fe45674943acdfdd
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and at least one known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to the book 'Born a Crime', likely to disguise the malicious nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/aws?utm_term=born+a+crime+trevor+noah+film In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jivazufevi/fGjiaih/master_craft_world_building_crafting_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zevolazezag/WiuzjhY/40222069418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubsvp.com/bowazufabirutuxusulota6kcym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealicaitalia-oficial.site/how_to_send_videos_on_discordftijb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pejilajapife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134477767/vufumubapumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rufonova/ibhiXdy/sql_injection_commands_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitcoinlearningcentre.online/353812407118h6o7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuravamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740838/b60bc7d65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duzajitoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680922/ded7ea8670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ebed6276-6372-4ddf-adad-9a0fa504b99f.filesusr.com/ugd/805d2a_56431608dcda49a69f52a9eb623c23a5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/331df085-83c9-43aa-b25d-45ee9e41d376/how_to_connect_ipega_9076_to_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://84daacc9-7e90-4c5d-b1ed-526950900c49.filesusr.com/ugd/73f3b0_23fc191a8ec948f0bcc26f6cac557d56.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jopomodilamego/rawevopufegewixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e67366dc-545b-404f-8744-3708cf681640/44472717537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kawotexulozax/razupemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f2467c6-0d80-4e38-8df7-27624e0b9669.filesusr.com/ugd/e19533_06b41c0f229c46f7a9da02c42ccd0abd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/begijufadi/birthday_song_punjabi_new.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aefbb2f1-1cfc-4a48-aab2-d72547d84173.filesusr.com/ugd/2f3ac6_41c4559b8b9140a49da93f69cfa4ef40.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89ef2072-e8d0-4eeb-a53c-e7200db7b2b2/defiruxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5bd4e0b-0082-4366-a86b-11f0f620aae8/marx_communist_manifesto_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7d3a0ae-8059-487b-8826-088776693174.filesusr.com/ugd/8d23e4_dc554a36e8eb457fbd79114e32a90a46.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_off0000f205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF205 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 8f98adc1648efe3f6953fda4ce98ce54387471a052783861aced15b3b8d83eca
font_01_sfnt_off00010318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10318 11468 bytes
SHA-256: d5e9b41b01010f3bf86c9bda314064081f14b9b171296900d89b7ff4cf6b0a8e