Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8d62b7eb35f065a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-05-01 04:25:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b6916e72398552dd967d756ec49dde9d SHA-1: 82098b82ae5418e0d46104cbddcd241b58ba93d7 SHA-256: d8d62b7eb35f065a5a46870c786043c90c2e58b3fc3ec352ce63e0caca06674c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or are part of a link farm. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=the+shadow+over+innsmouth+plot+summary', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=the+shadow+over+innsmouth+plot+summary In PDF document text
    • https://fuwodeku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136095673/4081842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meverofukibax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134620555/6cacf414c6a5bae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potolkilife.ru/scaricare_musica_online_gratisyyw6k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ductsunlimitedins.com/lefuni09e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://repair-monokoles.ru/carry_on_epub7b9y7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vbnmcxz.xyz/walmart_tops.rosetta_stone_enterpriseysyth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrivewebs.com/12287888043cuz37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bewulikafujisew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135326730/5333809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avto-document.site/cuentos_de_jorge_bucay_para_nios26m7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedinelig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135982929/4541348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://bd7a0a6f-bbfd-49cc-ba41-c3f2778102d9.filesusr.com/ugd/9ea91e_284e687991f24636ba65ba99c8d43834.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d397443b-80d0-4e74-967c-4ce830ee3754.filesusr.com/ugd/0a76f0_4b659c2df2144680a6ed72913217780c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aaa8450b-5959-4376-bf95-5e5e4b45aab3.filesusr.com/ugd/bcfc74_5bbbc56bdcf149b7b512bc28a901655c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://949217f6-ecfc-4a1b-8806-967b2a145102.filesusr.com/ugd/b08fd2_1c0fbaaee22747bbb1057405909463bd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c84d532c-3b33-47d6-96aa-4134a1164eb1.filesusr.com/ugd/6d45f6_fde32ac1efc9428285fce6ea21b78e9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c1ab63b4-4781-4901-abeb-f581ed41d26f.filesusr.com/ugd/b44917_89bba863329642f495be506215a9a8a6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9eb5ee95-128e-4115-bcd6-d8db8525ce49.filesusr.com/ugd/9904c2_8d3b29fa862e4b42a28f0d8595cb630f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://86908e24-11f3-43a1-9346-bf531f45ee0b.filesusr.com/ugd/97493d_ebb54db8e649431e9ac7b179cd9f6b13.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13009 4108 bytes
SHA-256: 4039a93a914d0c93b161ecbe9fd44d10f0dfbff969d450d5da9df5f67cc0316d
font_01_sfnt_off00013ea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA7 5400 bytes
SHA-256: ff1a5b807c20efbb4b220bd87b501393fab73853c86f34c80217bb5e07b2117e
font_02_sfnt_off000150f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150F2 11188 bytes
SHA-256: f435c47479b6b9e3d14daac3742545d8e29efe58f5c252f01f98bf230645f103