Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e859d6de24aa96e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-05-29 10:08:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 030a62ec0fa359a69b8dd606da85bbd8 SHA-1: cf09f4d8ee7496732f6c4a5528fbab84b034bf77 SHA-256: e859d6de24aa96e1b4382436f969d42a10542f6fe75adee7459b792957db3695
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, potentially used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a known malicious redirector URL further supports the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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=answer+to+life%2527+s+question+42 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501057/normal_602463a400f4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigojakumadofef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606024/pofowarele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torevoxun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712334/583311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4504641/normal_603c7eb908495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukizawumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380236/fapuwekedavol_xogudo_kogigoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sobuxiba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134867950/54b5fcc8380df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rupuxiziwaxez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134765543/kozakuxumubu-risaganefo-xezemakaxejax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xefezabegeritaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379478/46e130cac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467043/normal_604f757d15e17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460975/normal_603760fcedda8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezalebivug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969918/mesezuwo.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/ee291c54-0ef3-4d0f-a13c-d4a7c10e6601/83471993550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9920642-34f9-4b33-966d-bb7e3999f23f/how_to_program_my_rca_universal_remote_to_my_emerson_tv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35d475e0-260b-4f11-a6c3-a08a36ef4e8d/la_luz_del_mundo_noticias_hoy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ecda575d-efc2-4050-8d3d-030ce6578c73/wordly_wise_3000_grade_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/62968c0a-c23f-488f-b2b3-7b2ae0252d2a/dyson_big_ball_animal_2_dc_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e0034a06-0f58-4699-9dfb-0a64b5a826c1/unimaid_remedial_admission_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae4ef7f4-e172-4c13-8033-2a90b415176d/47893314504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/033a8b1c-1469-46a9-896e-736d89e29bd7/amazing_fantasy_15_grade_2.0_value.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb8c5b96-460a-4b43-bbeb-85e2837deac5/67338883671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e83e008e-c450-4004-935b-b068856a5034/28588846064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/933d17ff-051c-46a0-ac14-4b21e6029ef2/28432358708.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_off0000eae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE5 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 1bf2e74286ed574bf49c69416a7cf28b8f8c0f3f44698a977abb18a019408bf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC28 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 3a1da0d3b1cf107fea63090c9d1247479c10948c641b01a646a4a8b847e6b46f