Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dad2c4a560e00e3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.0 KB Created: 2021-03-07 20:03:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: ef723b4ae51623a7be28148bc21fbc41 SHA-1: 4f6b046a1fc0a9cd7fb808055df418f67c190139 SHA-256: dad2c4a560e00e3a9b875211e1bab09f2b88e218a25df4ee36eff254d352a249
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. This strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious intent, likely leveraging T1059.007 if JavaScript were present, or T1566.001 for delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://dafemum.ru/123?utm_term=surely+you%2527re+joking+mr.+feynman+free In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405409/normal_6026168228ffa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424682/normal_5fc92cfd6e498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/powedaguja/gmib2gj/funky_bay_farm_adventure_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461791/normal_601c9a0ba742c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mugolino/iihoPgi/2714210597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luzigagoguna/fnFcShi/film_theme_song_quiz_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jivazufevi/iry3YeI/ww2_plane_images.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jigitovewuk/jbAhaa2/vorezanuvokowapiligez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412575/normal_6006e7a342ac7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kagelemovo/xjiqjgj/live_galaxy_wallpaper_for_pc_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375195/normal_5ff7c3107bf6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458856/normal_5fe850b005882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476001/normal_603e2e0749a5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wamefuvew/fEjgEgg/bee_factory_idle_honey_tycoon_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4479454/normal_5fe66b0942294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sikudile/7hjhjrd/motor_touring_matic_yamaha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fowasabitafal.epizy.com/girufubifumenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datidogebe.epizy.com/kizopezezomisuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d3826037-6016-486c-99e9-dc41bc666644.filesusr.com/ugd/b81754_5e8797d7cb2e4b6482392208cec5e150.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://madogawurelapo.rf.gd/how_to_use_wps_button_on_router.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://204833c8-abda-4421-8777-5048ee7dd919.filesusr.com/ugd/e30b7a_4ee551c4ab714310b1000a8757cfabef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://44f68060-d5e3-4d58-b4e7-e3760392f352.filesusr.com/ugd/49488e_1925454c346a4fb1a75389cc3fbad45b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://98350ace-7ac4-4f38-a9d9-579fdad8050b.filesusr.com/ugd/9b2d9b_49efda89e38043bfb42eadbb36947e0b.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001b465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B465 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 4253ce374f546ed82c0b962bfad5e193173c5af7311640f7068ccdda2cb38311
font_01_sfnt_off0001bee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BEE6 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 8f9e06196382d6f87720dae08fbe9eed45bb098e703912738062f14da7fd9439
font_02_sfnt_off0001d04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D04E 11924 bytes
SHA-256: 991aea4e234de90f608f355718194eee7690c8fbd5557d721c4e4535355fbf00
font_03_sfnt_off0001f790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F790 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e