Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1e2e6e58f26aad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-22 13:50:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 623337e6d1d128da168fcd8694707b37 SHA-1: 28d3342fd694623f0d6298f2922f490f41b88dca SHA-256: e1e2e6e58f26aad04a126c8fab932571f074d19992e34c73f8e6c1bfc4bc0226
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=fundamentals+of+transport+economics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ses-paypal.com/emerson_digital_room_thermostat_1f80-04712g0zc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamudavepavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324372/3957426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gorofegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134462705/sopatadapeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daating19.site/tabla_de_verdad_display_7_segmentosbpp5k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimogelego.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134601730/3481713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup153.space/algebra_2_workbook_mcgraw_hilld92jp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4425929/normal_6003092545959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374368/normal_5fe43340889c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403417/normal_5fe979781a40d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373240/normal_6036cef299ff3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412159/normal_6018bce9a16ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://69868269-04aa-4a0d-8379-1371762fd556.filesusr.com/ugd/d8beff_203d5006504541519564592aae4a78ff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0df6220b-9630-4647-aab6-0d9db69b9d59.filesusr.com/ugd/8b97dd_b1efc9c75edd4623895d0357fa5cd83f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ecab545c-19d2-4654-b6ac-fb8b9749f5ba.filesusr.com/ugd/e5412a_c04c3332aa3944bb86b4030f54cbcc60.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://63150c49-9e7f-4923-bc7a-1e4049050ce6.filesusr.com/ugd/cba449_38ac393845ed48c1a4e321c9d31c227d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc688580-c0ec-4ade-910b-7abffd870ab4.filesusr.com/ugd/096b61_0d18619cb351473e8f8d3ecce0c20949.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3c3b6f52-20a2-448a-be11-eec5930c502f.filesusr.com/ugd/0ca786_f14a474513bd444abbf25b450750a93b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0fd09eb5-fcde-4edc-8496-d8b48a199659/76165331964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3579224-371b-4c79-9535-2dff3bd1d9d0/xesurawava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9f503c4c-bf14-4dcb-9a7a-68e0e5bb3568.filesusr.com/ugd/8ac1ab_2363132f844c46f2bbb019d30a52f27b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1c019786-7048-4615-837a-ae53f087c4ae.filesusr.com/ugd/8b4172_00a132458fbb40dfa635843a510c9cc4.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_off0000f42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42A 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 3baf32ea46cdf24935ac48f2adf9d2b75c5bebf367bc0e2c3ea875e8b8d2ef13
font_01_sfnt_off000105f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F8 10464 bytes
SHA-256: ca71b7ce57affc6733d14e65b6fe4db9b332641e3498a77f2ecd734126733146