Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d88455b43e2e9f42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-04 20:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e61d49aedf1d20cc7d65e62a020fc8d7 SHA-1: ad9c4700fc6dc0d430e8896c8718285733d9915f SHA-256: d88455b43e2e9f42fd5e0b4de333a5bfa3dc862eca03fca1cfd2565a14d0ff9e
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting and one specifically to a known malicious redirector. This indicates the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://yafferge.ru/123?utm_term=trial+balance+sheet+template In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446923/normal_606095dfeb56e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duzezefoge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437668/xogimat_nisutirilevoja_joluwadotaku_vawimamuzoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuwawumakilur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134875279/kiritivod_wivukutavigolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pivufuzonopovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588588/monato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lefojokux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135399193/nobokovonisavuvijone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajiketuwomap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135957261/miraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanasebumafuwaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134899829/8743386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393362/normal_5fd099a6ab537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476924/normal_60353a71d89b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464077/normal_605c02985bc63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabejopow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597712/fifobukin-ratawuzamaf-xabirubajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boforotove.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135393238/3820258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476152/normal_600ae38a64e91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sawasivived.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134378202/pulikutetez_piwevuf_jifivoporof_wozijanovetepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9d8f57db-1416-4d0b-9b35-2b7b9001a7d7/tunovewizovosasasodijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b83253ba-9d41-4527-9517-1df6e5887196/84812991060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a26376bb-5d9f-4cef-9302-32eaac56a47d/tijopapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64080718-c7c6-4c84-9521-ddaa35b63f4b/principles_of_microeconomics_textbook_by_n._gregory_mankiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ade360c4-cd77-4e0d-b736-8498b779d75a/kenmore_series_500_washer_issues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d6c33c6-6acd-4c0c-a4c8-e3a49102442c/complex_ptsd_diagnostic_criteria_icd_11.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_off0000ec53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC53 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 021e21bd0e59c8fd4edf1094a1dacbe2e3b53a951170762bb1f5f559a66aac8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE00 10668 bytes
SHA-256: dfe29ecdcd8d5ba694871ebdb0bd5036edb0762c1c5a80ddf26cc2ae513efc38