Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfb6c46a73e6588f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-02-21 03:58:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 553a46688503781baef39a12a91ad1ca SHA-1: 56ab49dde490b62ec2517c026cefd03ace6faf40 SHA-256: dfb6c46a73e6588f10d96d081af0090737cfac122f75505c254af669482fc566
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with critical heuristics identifying it as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution, as evidenced by the malicious redirector link and the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 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/123?utm_term=will+potassium+form+ionic+or+covalent+bond In PDF document text
    • http://letnesil.xyz/10438355332idwz7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buylettersonline.com/dutaronemutitc3q82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonboxstudio.com/594407282035rb7w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tesocoin.online/mn_dmv_drivers_license_manual134vf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soxuwewoduxewu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042667/miluwu-katomajuleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bigakajufejala.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265656/6996117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busurman.space/stronghold_guide_pillars_of_eternity6blys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447877/normal_600cb9635cb90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ses-sanobrabotka.ru/magakoguwazedilijotarokjtpby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365608/normal_5fde445526636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://jinelod.rf.gd/find_someone_who_worksheet_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotafufoka.epizy.com/project_risk_management_pmbok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukalofawofami.epizy.com/button_meme_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezegunotoxom.rf.gd/start_tor_browser_32_bit.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14D 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8d4df33d09b8e2977e8cbc6b118206c70aed9db178480d12f717b72fada085
font_01_sfnt_off000103fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FE 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 43368d96c5bc3183f16395a12ebc1eb58c2e215084665e200ed21409bdcb6576