Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3c04e85e70700db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 13:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0e24374747d67de8765f8acb6dcc3915 SHA-1: 7ac602025f52e90273454c90054c03cda9d6d2d2 SHA-256: e3c04e85e70700db8c0396e4f9afc1774373b3d85e27966dd922314257c9a654
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and are likely part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings for malicious content. One critical heuristic indicates that a link redirects to known malicious infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/123?utm_term=a+h+almaas+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kerawidirara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746453/9809655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixizibonemitu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382366/2623025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waraxisunagigam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131416/kiwuvisafuruzotoduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapunetiregete.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135956705/kenig_mudewogudaxuj_kebunimuton_lememavolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/98826032-a82d-486e-ab1e-ac1071432c10/kinesiologa_y_anatoma_aplicada_la_ciencia_del_movimiento_humano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d488682f-d7e5-463d-af84-e7bba06fcf95/windows_server_2012_r2_end_of_life_dates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuwolufit.pbworks.com/f/86616449665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rugewenuzed.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144421224/magimediwewexomorofitanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zolunegoli.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144672318/english_words_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaretaz.pbworks.com/f/toddler_poncho_pattern_crochet_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbb1a292-7ed7-4461-9d74-c619b400a5c8/pes_2013_img_dosyas_full_indir_gezginler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garewewaziwu.pbworks.com/f/86559493085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8aa5d863-7672-4fa6-9b7c-946a1160b532/the_daniel_plan_10_day_detox_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be0b96f7-3533-471e-a957-fa394065ef5e/the_leftovers_plot_explained.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6500872a-f43d-46b3-9d7a-a154e093fb3e/moxatepajixusigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werinenimuta.pbworks.com/f/grammar_form_and_function_3_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasovuxosew.pbworks.com/f/funonarofozepisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilanom.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144415239/murray_personality_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21c7369a-782f-44ea-8d49-21a86f865a01/55957997642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21f2c18b-cd94-43d9-a683-56a1e631fcfb/group_theory_mathematical_induction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2292a7e0-f5a3-411d-9546-099f198ecb3b/bebalikegimilogiz.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_off0000f906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 5380 bytes
SHA-256: fe3d853409f8c86fc42ac5b54439905617e5c8e90d9a27b8381ad8e22911fad1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B28 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 26e9959ab6f3bb9cd821bca4256c5aa86e5df68c7009ed8df29341a013725560