Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc99d81e653aacea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-05-10 11:43:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c4eefaa32fe157b43df332bdf1117409 SHA-1: cfcddf53fa6eb238f9d562733cac4cc9ce36aed2 SHA-256: dc99d81e653aacea8e920d7e337d69946a6d03fccc5932146016897ea220a44e
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF containing a link farm and a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=garmin+nuvi+1200+map+update+download', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to map updates, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=garmin+nuvi+1200+map+update+download In PDF document text
    • https://sisivijujejaliw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741673/karevira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369307/normal_5ffdee826df3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vobokalonumenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134656332/4094886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476927/normal_6013222ee3b74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejufawos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134328201/5245437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417527/normal_60050d2e809b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buvaranugabenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873820/zitotabodifag-zipemu-rofiseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392652/normal_60449bbf51dbb.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/b597795d-983b-472d-933c-66f84faaad8d/puzowolakibubamudosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://69c5641f-197a-42c1-bef1-daa502c1f1d7.filesusr.com/ugd/948cea_c1afa23a89e04ff1a48d38d854a7b981.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ea45de30-dd20-4b56-8e36-964e1381fee0/the_metamorphosis_part_1_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50b3d509-1c07-47d5-b95b-f6529d07ba95/the_anatomy_of_story_22_steps_to_becoming_a_master_storyteller_epub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d03ec42c-8b93-48d3-a61e-9aee396c0db4.filesusr.com/ugd/1e557c_656cd18d648d43ba84398d22119474a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e890be6-6afb-4219-9571-118b71f7bb94/modal_verb_had_to_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedbc21-cb93-402c-9ae2-3476589645d2.filesusr.com/ugd/f3ecbe_02a9951153494a28be60caef51c36deb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://57eba762-b826-4879-8d7a-7f480aba2934.filesusr.com/ugd/e89c2b_694f01e5a8dd45a7b6ee30f5d669aeb2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://85fc0914-20e3-4f1c-be8c-de7e6f89f47e.filesusr.com/ugd/a44510_d0f219ee886c4a23870492b5f6ee20e9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fixararololu/bedcover_set_informa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0677cb35-3315-4e61-9542-3ee9834c84e5/what_are_the_principles_of_phonics_instruction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rudelazifizuvo/naxewifupirorixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d73c234d-0e3d-497d-8108-d5659bace061.filesusr.com/ugd/58a813_28d80dee9e8d47d78a4fde9c5017fa9d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b860438a-ced3-4995-86f2-ad9a24e3f15c.filesusr.com/ugd/938eb2_a3e6b7c0502e41a89fcd4a8efdb44126.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://144c9d4d-401b-437b-b89f-6a5816d7da47.filesusr.com/ugd/cd33f5_b686e157664d45dc99afd4b8d035b062.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08C 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1bb38eb1b5eec9673ccb76e9b66b746a805afac11233aa02945beaa79d6efe
font_01_sfnt_off00010310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10310 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 9b9154c2cd49ab040b8481fe8a902e82ddfaa5a79ef4cb98e981e57801770461