Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da3fbf753171232a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-03-02 22:42:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: a6b64a411f77ebb57eeab4822c5e46eb SHA-1: 698c3e212f2e3f04aa62355a07b1233c5598a396 SHA-256: da3fbf753171232a7a094922a3079576bb5200736732257398adb6a8c120a724
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and identified as part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that at least one URL leads to known malicious infrastructure. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may also be used to trick users into providing passwords for archives, a common tactic for evading security controls. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://dafemum.ru/123?utm_term=oracle+database+12c+release+2+%252812.2%2529+installation+on+oracle+linux+8 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lidupusumoj/jel3vja/texas_holdem_poker_offline_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eeuuurrrrr.space/59212806785fktn0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/guzunilepin/hagenar/55365633367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lolatonuvesa/mgcighf/90277485263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalat.space/67627446037nap4z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snegny.com/nileweguwubrswi6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnclassis.org/how_to_use_a_rainbow_vacuum_cleaner7yvmp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fexejikexew/ijhpCmI/wexefutixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onesmall.space/washington_gas_company_woodbridge_valjj0p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moxinivo/fqYPRtn/jajewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jegetito/ahjjbhr/air_force_field_hockey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dithetsen.xyz/administracion_de_medicamentos_por_via_subcutaneagrgw6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gixenako/UohihjC/ice_cream_flavors_with_fruit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kersita.space/an_ember_in_the_ashes_book_1_summarynjtm0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457868/normal_5fd78cc848656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386839/normal_5fca969556d9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trokot-online.xyz/zolevupanujodebunofajige3mur4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dudugetogi/6Q5hihI/xatakesinasabalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373526/normal_602152818a66f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xibidodoko/ifeISie/sculpture_center_jobs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446761/normal_5fdabb04e71d7.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/salade/what_does_alla_prima_mean_in_painting.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9F 5732 bytes
SHA-256: a41953bd83d622210064ce74fd8fc79d6d9c2bd2d1d778be8619d4be7d0343e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10135 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off000109c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C2 12064 bytes
SHA-256: ca17fd1c0362cff1f3815d7d223fc0ef23d6ca80f2150100a674a602d48c5b4c