Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee18a787838f6250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-03-01 06:25:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8c019baffadaf7d763106276953d26e2 SHA-1: 41e834ae7bad1760af0c0906d129e7465e4f4853 SHA-256: ee18a787838f6250f2c0b4a558bd98f19957e7d33eecdc90623408553f969b09
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services and redirectors, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=permutation+problems+worksheet+with+solutions In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nuduniguwufo/vtjc2hh/uncertainty_definition_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lupokuna/j4bjj7W/wheels_on_the_bus_song_for_kids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jekefidaz.mygamesonline.org/2018_ap_calc_ab_frq_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwasigal.mywebcommunity.org/tekudorirogofeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopaxabog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135309926/widomitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474448/normal_5feba3457f22d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468537/normal_600d6ac80f2ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaxizibu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134672664/fuzepuluwijer_kowedidezebu_zoniguvisulu_xuzefowofari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421615/normal_5fff510a5606b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzelobuledu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397981/77db3691d137a94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495037/normal_600bb9b1aa31a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relujebaxarun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164257/folebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanaxade.mygamesonline.org/65239417402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagimubu.mywebcommunity.org/paburofogadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411702/normal_601b454e0194a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426280/normal_603969e85abc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454167/normal_5fd17a899d84e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE122 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 4758c36fc884d64bed652ff8f67131bf31f5757dd5ba9cef1a82b7d4560e9221
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BD 15544 bytes
SHA-256: 8c7040315cfe5338471eec5046608f0a538773d83b14af1d3b787e9c0f2a5eb0
font_02_sfnt_off00012407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12407 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 6de16bda46bf1ec27efab41bedc3b09f8a96b8c9eecd7f9fd664686069ca382f
font_03_sfnt_off000138c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138C1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3