Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dff1e03fa495098c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-03-10 23:19:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4d2ad12ac51860426491a4281034027b SHA-1: a176bc3a6c75100f2d96a2cc5fc1c9128254ed88 SHA-256: dff1e03fa495098c6c86fca26a9a78fac6ce5c930ed78495dd2c3e6c6a096f7e
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and at least one known malicious redirector. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/award?keyword=apush+chapter+27+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gnoogle.site/psychology_books_for_sale_collegeg69u4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trokot-roznica.xyz/nuvufasonezufowaminunuro3kbji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igme.site/grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance_by_angela_duckworth_summaryx62b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trysol.xyz/48423297068bkxei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkconstructionsucks.com/mississippi_valley_state_university_campus_mapm0l6t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://b9264059-5ce6-458a-812b-58b21e0c51d1.filesusr.com/ugd/9a3dc1_a8c101d5b9464411a640dc2dd67bbd52.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://459ec6dd-5b69-4322-a182-74abbfaa0e48.filesusr.com/ugd/221eaa_d5ce095a4fe947639502bc717ff9785f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9bb3fa0f-0141-4b4e-b55b-912632e902b8/19718823653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5071cc05-3fa2-46b1-b944-d2523ca4b51d.filesusr.com/ugd/62e2c1_4edc29c0300d447980218adc2c070b20.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://11f44e1d-c86f-4be6-baa1-90970e7c24f5.filesusr.com/ugd/a298ce_87cdf1c28b90455caa72fc5c0ec367fc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a83ee031-7f5d-431c-8aa7-bbfbff4291bb/56306285100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6f84c080-6bd2-4154-8ce1-0e390380bda5.filesusr.com/ugd/defdb4_e85412cff9ac4c8692fc085faea720b4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60e5a3cb-e54f-448f-b381-37a66fe0d063/83714081615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/daac923d-fa68-4d6e-b9de-3ec526e4c071/flight_sim_x_helicopter_controls.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5071cc05-3fa2-46b1-b944-d2523ca4b51d.filesusr.com/ugd/62e2c1_1b45470310014541b6d9ea6c3cbaba48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e437b920-fa79-41d5-b67c-0ca059f4e77a.filesusr.com/ugd/d97c10_99f6ddebaf70467ca0c613f4188f7b13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96927ef5-e314-4fc3-b261-5815fce7f4e1/apc_back-ups_es_750_surge_protector.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://86908e24-11f3-43a1-9346-bf531f45ee0b.filesusr.com/ugd/97493d_c243de97e3554985a348c9755685d659.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fb1cd387-549b-40f1-a5a4-67fd65d29bb3.filesusr.com/ugd/4200b4_18e0c0b4464d43e994b558c84e5f9dd6.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
    • 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_off0000f230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF230 5412 bytes
SHA-256: bcf05e6fcfb8a7fb2a7a45f596b0d760d2b7f524a1a5900aaef358314bd34ab4
font_01_sfnt_off0001049c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049C 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 1072b71925f4702c5bb2c1f66a075eaeb10336ebd783f59ceae5870efb63fbd0
font_02_sfnt_off00012788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12788 17880 bytes
SHA-256: b6b8a98bc7eac5e1eb4fd33e7f91bcf536ff3a3ca994a560798dd13a94267a58