Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd80faac3f28b0be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.0 KB Created: 2021-05-20 05:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 279e49b962747914e2221a4becf2fcdb SHA-1: a1f79d55588521f1f5bae9f5e6e182cb346d5e91 SHA-256: dd80faac3f28b0bec5c8bc3a85c6edbe1a6806a769ac81d9bdffd760ebc9e035
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or redirection attempt. The document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable domains or redirectors, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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=adverbios+irregulares+en+ingles+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463263/normal_60609bc3c6b7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texifuxifom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776695/7902560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373987/normal_602d1e5519b93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vezutokabev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134758566/guvulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzazaba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813658/lopamanere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rujurujubawupof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969172/1885518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477863/normal_604a4567ec3c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387918/normal_6015350fedbf6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413566/normal_60264d045306d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485943/normal_5fdab45b95f01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452389/normal_604308c639fa6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiwazakamofefuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041011/4a57f2f2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422382/normal_6068c8776e866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xapodopuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856257/2503131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakaromef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507496/4fa76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411270/normal_5fdc6b4a617ec.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/sefepugolupalax/protect_all_sheets_in_excel_using_vba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c697cf9b-4a59-4714-9c65-3ea740e2ecc9/55233169523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f8cd7d59-21d0-4599-ab80-22f4d010defc/10587116855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xelimewat/karexafuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/winumigutam/48218559869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/86368acc-d7e8-4b0c-9054-83f94b6cf054/american_football_drills_to_do_at_home.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b46dea3d-33c1-4713-ba93-0313f4f07784/28486613649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vefagotoje/nimeritos.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000176f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176F3 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 0376e8d49570cae1c75ade74333495a5f0f0c073eabae2d61e386cdde4c26f09
font_01_sfnt_off00018963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18963 12964 bytes
SHA-256: 056b638dee993f0fc77f448ee08264e16001514183279d7cd1529d49bd4dcfb3
font_02_sfnt_off0001b373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B373 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15