Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e80176a85889587a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-03-17 04:02:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: d45859da9207b6e058758d7dc65b7e7e SHA-1: 5cbf42da037afab9ac4d459192c9cbc38da44560 SHA-256: e80176a85889587aca54132e18e2ab72ea357da8f7dabc2d7de5600ce1384f66
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/award?keyword=diploma+automobile+engineering+books+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://lupelev.22web.org/free_poster_design_templates_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456116/normal_5fdc12013f0af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427519/normal_5fcb175084ba7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derifupiwa.mypressonline.com/bls_manual_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nulupupekoxekam.22web.org/zopipakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386074/normal_60391fb046856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zitupow.medianewsonline.com/bilutukatagitogagezodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452148/normal_5fc9acba61277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421764/normal_5fc96b6cd7219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374359/normal_604edefde4742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4377931/normal_5fccd201d8e84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381528/normal_5fe7754cd4fe1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393019/normal_5ff8b1ffce567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tefetuzuzip.myartsonline.com/harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire_book_chapter_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabikobi.epizy.com/sobesivonepifapefuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setopuvoxuz.epizy.com/sc_caste_list_in_bihar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pimobepetokonud.myartsonline.com/free_download_entrepreneurship_development_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonufusova.rf.gd/nijasigajunozesifajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaxixuzebupajal.epizy.com/pesodizixepuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livukizaxavubip.rf.gd/ielts_reading_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudufigunabi/povetekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fupuzujovo.epizy.com/94602365634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zumomasugipeno/free_checkers_game_for_pc.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_off00010be4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE4 5656 bytes
SHA-256: cbcf9ebd76deff39b40744b33839a21084468b8db9052b984221eab8c4dbcfdc
font_01_sfnt_off00011f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F16 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 0e17c60725add50a0122f017a81d9ddc0012f682f1edc638116d4dcdd6435f16