Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e664a9d39ee82180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-04-11 06:36:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9945356cd5a403e27c0ff00f55d7c3c2 SHA-1: c5c35a7af35269b6d1fe66beab4b76650abeaf82 SHA-256: e664a9d39ee82180197212b759fb1112cbb03c278a18c8be0b155bd309d5f15d
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains embedded links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain a lure related to 'ISO certification', directing users to the malicious URL. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, some on disposable hosting, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://yafferge.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+get+iso+certification+in+tamilnadu
    • https://sijetuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134499475/5b5fcc75b48.pdf
    • https://tiwudusakuwizir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637104/8086153.pdf
    • https://laniguxademe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/5241675.pdf
    • http://botumizesakukij.iblogger.org/fojexidodugu.pdf
    • https://femixazate.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363246/273913.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://79d86aa2-23c4-4aa0-a0dc-c16ac59ae55d.filesusr.com/ugd/ecb701_6c61a0592c144322b61eed45c2089925.pdf?index=true
    • https://76c9fb28-c10e-4950-85be-37de24a2ede8.filesusr.com/ugd/fa32a6_e7f55298207243f6b7f5a8e2c2161338.pdf?index=true
    • http://dovikerafiw.rf.gd/borland_c_builder_the_complete_reference.pdf
    • https://51f47fa2-20f7-4ec4-bb91-8ae4aee689b4.filesusr.com/ugd/917232_e0a49d71b57f47df953bfc0ccd75e310.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a4875eb-bd14-46bd-86f9-5b471fe643ce/what_does_the_word_tempest_mean_in_english.pdf
    • https://edcb5511-827b-40b0-97c1-3499c313f96b.filesusr.com/ugd/0779a3_3c7bc49f67194987a5becd4beb144b46.pdf?index=true
    • http://kosogomozu.epizy.com/92273308633.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/81c69e77-453e-42ca-9a4b-b65c6c865aca/how_to_do_a_bibliography_in_chicago_manual_style.pdf
    • http://norilonabu.epizy.com/postmodernism_or_the_cultural_logic_of_late_capitalism_essay.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3f942d5-5db3-424b-8e3f-79efd66daf95/digital_signal_processing_applications.pdf
    • http://bubomikofar.epizy.com/lab_report_format.pdf
    • https://696f1bd8-06c3-47a7-a8f7-e83e17ec8d18.filesusr.com/ugd/5ad03d_2d73eac16a4f4c998c88c7586810d5d6.pdf?index=true
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0013ca03-5496-4dbe-9fc9-7b72c0953547/the_hunger_games_catching_fire_book_quotes_with_page_numbers.pdf
    • https://6c71f620-b6e5-46cc-9e58-526c5f0a7a41.filesusr.com/ugd/1c90dc_5ff6c323a8ed400d91eae82b10603c73.pdf?index=true
    • https://8ed7ad90-0d0e-491f-9c15-1f6cd5a61d18.filesusr.com/ugd/f1a804_8362de11884b4b96874dc0525bf7f9b3.pdf?index=true
    • http://pivotigapux.rf.gd/37336218339.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f860.bin
bc80fe16b34945579c7f30f0224c1305e5f6a04c0b9e6f92e9b03e3ccfb26bf2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF860 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ab8.bin
b60556543a2bd48eb8a63742517068c4c97ebbfd246d049321795821baa205d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB8 11272 bytes