Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4993e7fb85ff519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-11-24 20:49:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f849e5b253b23ab711a36487c3a327eb SHA-1: d6f667c54bbab4e390ebd2dcd175e960d0d1d418 SHA-256: d4993e7fb85ff519d7914f7a31dca1cafeb1cbe5b44d096dea7f2dfdba87237e
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and a known malicious redirector. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=apa+quiz+questions In PDF document text
    • https://zinixukugezevul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134612333/5462952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xovatikawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134726086/wafaribikova-xubotikomabana-zitanaxedaga-wukagogajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabulibatelirip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597637/5981418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366024/normal_5f870ed24ff13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worobewunit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406731/7975339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416938/normal_5f9f6ffb594c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvudunepuzuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134513453/2214525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fexatawolev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134445796/mizobasos_miditete_rifafures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dosaremuxabibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739916/jezotojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wesujugureju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874517/wukubi-velewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nipaxibovaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379211/torukiwojikijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369655/normal_5f8b234b058f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tipakalif/zajirodube.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_off0000c6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6FE 4848 bytes
SHA-256: f190349a3153bdb5d2c601ffd47b08fb6cce585b78f370cae9e343a7b3aa0a96
font_01_sfnt_off0000d79d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79D 10984 bytes
SHA-256: ff33aff95b580ebceb307e5f90380f461fa3733e5e28d06ff6b90de4b8a9c895