Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e91fe56b63f3231b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.3 KB Created: 2021-03-24 23:09:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 2ae07dbbcd52b51c6360e0296120b67f SHA-1: f9ae562ad75b26dd76c9f2c51a8ac99366c35312 SHA-256: e91fe56b63f3231b6fc5ca649aed7e25b0052ea12ac59a929597f571faad53f8
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable domains or redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phishing lures. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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/strik?utm_term=integrated+chinese+level+2+part+1+textbook+online In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sejixikerut/QXiiduh/diaphragmatic_hernia_in_newborn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bamebuxi/F2YkhcZ/71835386872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/daviluzabidi/299XhiD/monkey_grass_no_flowers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ganuniwiku/gEJgiF4/mirrorless_camera_for_beginners_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xelibirujegid.mywebcommunity.org/amphitryon_ignacio_padilla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gobuwovuv/ic7Phcs/pufaxikinoxuvepapo.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/512a610d-04a8-4408-b589-8a7dc3396b89/viking_husqvarna_120_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://05491ccc-77c7-428b-9c25-74f2c6c50d4a.filesusr.com/ugd/d51d36_cf1e19cb760a475f85d03e7acb7dcb7c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35521100-e99b-44e5-ac59-b78b4446e216/blood_bowl_2020_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c0e8410b-c394-4b36-8083-179878a46647.filesusr.com/ugd/d4b1dc_1e95f38e0b834bde99c54f15daacb49f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lazuletezofik.onlinewebshop.net/arduino_uno_technical_specifications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://65de77fc-0341-4fd2-89b2-cd6b005a91de.filesusr.com/ugd/cf79db_512e1486ea2843f0ba513ac33086c576.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bepolujogox.atwebpages.com/nusuvadifenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a246e1be-6be5-4fcd-ab8b-1ea2f79b68b8/medical_anthropology_a_biocultural_approach_4th_edition_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fugolosabi.epizy.com/62064174411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kebafitesulodu.epizy.com/41978572050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7133fc40-0b9c-4701-b953-e7fafc934b44.filesusr.com/ugd/70a38d_26c0d1fdd2c9445bb4749ac5a3935298.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a35aa970-3e4e-4c20-be1f-53d10001bce9.filesusr.com/ugd/af4e73_94a975a1c4be4abfa50016862efce35f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ea1ff7f-05b3-43a2-9744-178351a05ed1.filesusr.com/ugd/01f9b9_c5bb7156a38d4c28bd4333e3e48b26b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://329f26c8-0235-4118-8622-173d264d9cf1.filesusr.com/ugd/221f3a_da6b0fb8d37240f3aa613deed7d1a37c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5eee6b05-0dcd-4b86-ac00-ad93ae39d04e/92840822416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e8802323-0824-40c5-8a58-19d700e27586.filesusr.com/ugd/50cafd_84337bfb20df4d72bee3b676b548a186.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0339c4ec-f9e8-484d-afac-dd673f526c2c/87094344823.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA19 67904 bytes
SHA-256: 029a96280efb4e05236b3926c3ba0653299cdb8342b22ba745dd55b9ca1a2cb6
font_01_sfnt_off0001c348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C348 5788 bytes
SHA-256: efa6db27b265b02f661d0dfa8f6cc679976172eb713e4e9b5e8909ef6f58a1c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001d6fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D6FC 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 4170d7891d7e84c8a3b1ce5b2f36b21f02a6a6231e423c068b33075bf433bb39