Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e41343d4cb9f243d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-05-19 12:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 19b17859c24fea4fa06d2bf8b4558705 SHA-1: 0e34a78c201ca6e47c364fc539a9fd6aede95969 SHA-256: e41343d4cb9f243d89dbd959506a93c7029d284b956cdad872c9ea570757a7b7
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for malicious redirector links and a PDF link farm. The embedded links, such as 'https://crophysi.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+disassemble+grohe+kitchen+faucet+head', likely serve as lures to phishing or malware download sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

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/strik?utm_term=how+to+disassemble+grohe+kitchen+faucet+head In PDF document text
    • https://fujimerikav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307110/ropewaxa-kudaruxaniwapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofuzubakav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606612/468f972cb2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mukekevujawova.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969498/sadafutalatogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417813/normal_6060a1ffc7aa0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revafabeku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134708131/ximapimisodujawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454550/normal_60146722595b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roderisagewap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507489/lalofemutogoladewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xabodalemebom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381489/9667ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafubadam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874240/nodivuvo_zakexob_savanos_luroxovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419430/normal_605f9e0d3fa91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388620/normal_5feb5b0d070e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zipinokigemido.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134890871/80e049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxujutuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348357/b25efbbfdd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanazufir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740694/a75369acd0f1d.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/e91620b3-08c1-4b99-b2b6-5218237d1c25/kunojunalivaxunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51381058-e2b5-4595-bcd5-3e61ee97f42d/big_nate_in_a_class_by_himself_full_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1e340df-f8f2-4f09-b782-55f3b3959ea8/noxugesojabase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a9350b2-6e3d-43b7-beb9-037299be1bb9/62081223705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7125ee8d-e6cf-49c9-9e39-553b92093ed2/how_to_say_thanks_for_your_prompt_reply_in_german.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dff1567a-88fb-4cbe-9fc2-9db3ada766ca/hayward_salt_generator_problems.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_off00010ce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE2 5692 bytes
SHA-256: 125001d821f61d0f9b2559ed94dba5d50a54a14e30088a59874d355a58f93844
font_01_sfnt_off00012026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12026 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 86a9b6c94897e64db4374c43a751fa79bcf7dcdeaed5ab1ec44c852600d7d4f7