Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53b8478003516fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-03-20 18:01:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 6bce9a8e9c99c33e8ba7c32d776aaf7b SHA-1: 59656b98c6d290c7029fe003b3dafab2cb97f09f SHA-256: e53b8478003516fd90a0e1c5e02b2c966559f5c7dd381e417d4b097160294a14
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and redirect to malicious content.

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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=define+justice+system+synonym In PDF document text
    • http://tojuvapemupo.mywebcommunity.org/inheritance_paolini_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470412/normal_600b2f3eba9e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorivomewojesab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813497/2133471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zibepifutidi.sportsontheweb.net/tappan_oven_not_heating.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407316/normal_5fed6594e1390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451206/normal_5ff99616bca97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gukokefa/htNjdhg/fanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugakimi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135323030/4700259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367290/normal_602e249e2f87b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466680/normal_6034f2a22b0a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485010/normal_6030a5064baf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letijefa/gjhhiUu/19606205734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/madufuxenuw/hgid2hi/38941326497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tawusizigegik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997505/dunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jigavozef/jcgfQii/pre_kindergarten_online_learning_games_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damujulul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135335913/e65414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://3ae4d138-4ba3-4962-98fb-1b98b40a6a82.filesusr.com/ugd/38062a_4fe6298789d942ad93a657590ba62d2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a540aa65-2eb1-4ac3-86d0-bf6a54daac96.filesusr.com/ugd/2d797c_618f8d4567f149d482d993b454d26cc9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://550dfcec-0280-4316-a0d5-68b74a7a20b9.filesusr.com/ugd/f59309_34fb1629e9b44194be8632727910f260.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3dd85f33-233b-4b3c-8e53-142bc8307eec.filesusr.com/ugd/8df890_52c831dd04014eaca6168fc12b6745a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0fe83ef2-ed6b-4f04-a52d-31fe3c58d8d1.filesusr.com/ugd/ade4e6_63d9c47f1c344458bd6b75226216d53e.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_off0000edb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB3 4868 bytes
SHA-256: 492acc7e6ed243d08e695fe020c394df8a68de97e602be74c04a1ad096aedcd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE50 11580 bytes
SHA-256: e1c26b8a8bff5ed0429e5d58a83496dc59c6d8e3aae89ddb5f2409c9d2a640c7