Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1af71fad495681d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.4 KB Created: 2021-03-23 01:52:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bc96b29763387a14eb86a0f6477374ba SHA-1: d90a07dd705d3c5ad7b79a460755690e37731f12 SHA-256: e1af71fad495681d0274a9e25ef85769c0e7993bcd483c5be4f0c479d8e92d8e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, with several pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a "syntactic structures by noam chomsky pdf", which is used to disguise the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://dafemum.ru/award?keyword=syntactic+structures+by+noam+chomsky+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kogowetek.getenjoyment.net/writing_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379846/normal_60503f447afe3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nosatines.mypressonline.com/dudelenexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texno3ua.com/moon_river_chords_frank_sinatra56xcu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376099/normal_602500e1d8a64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455377/normal_5fe99ebaed08c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbcua.site/jorafosejipadadufuveletazb6o7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4390374/normal_5fcbc252d11ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371269/normal_605793b331d2c.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
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a6ae9ce-546b-47e8-84f1-56a4ac2c635e/how_to_fix_keurig_when_it_says_prime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/39798543-9130-4e2b-923c-9492d01e7b03/simplehuman_travel_mirror_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokudaruriwiv.atwebpages.com/tratamiento_de_ascaris_lumbricoides_en_adultos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/faxaxos/6465660324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedirite.onlinewebshop.net/saifurs_analogy_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazaburifug.myartsonline.com/liftmaster_wont_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tenunud/nccn_rectal_cancer_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wenobagupexekap/learn_r_programming_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d76fcfc-e68e-45ce-9b32-fb712f89298e/how_to_connect_hp_officejet_j4680_all_in_one.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c52cba6d-0dd4-4590-9614-63a83f786952/what_is_world_zone_1_royal_mail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbbcfa72-6322-4864-8918-651d5fb42efb/ranorarilimasavizufelaxa.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001d50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D50C 5720 bytes
SHA-256: 26a727c5cd3ac956fe10a80248b87c85e9d0776429f0aa987e9873dc40c0ae44
font_01_sfnt_off0001e8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E8E2 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 76c187a59d87f88c76d0bf6e29986abd35bafe3459ba1875379d01cfa72f3463
font_02_sfnt_off0001fbe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FBE4 15724 bytes
SHA-256: 034dbdac722a55c232c6ad98ded367b2c50633fa281b7e747c14fa8c66401554
font_03_sfnt_off000228ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x228EC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2