Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f539ae58978ed1a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-03-13 23:00:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 19f9bc202ceb1155e4e773a2c431346c SHA-1: 290c232656e65a82bbd47df20ba0deeea3339db7 SHA-256: f539ae58978ed1a8ef0216bfb53205e6bf1e58520f88e725901baae2fd88007f
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links designed to redirect users to malicious websites, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristics. The primary redirector URL is https://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=tom+sawyer+character+in+huckleberry+finn, which is part of a link farm strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=tom+sawyer+character+in+huckleberry+finn In PDF document text
    • https://nuzalegexokoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814177/bawusipo-nirabagatot-rumisajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letinumi/yPchdk6/20597133237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xanovika/eq8ibhd/d_j_music_app_download_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujekesire/eERgj5L/multiple_monitor_desktop_backgrounds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badosesidexezub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874160/7312661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zezetemirag/shjEHxp/24203659029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jojitagifuva/67865215907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://945b3f91-9c76-4178-be32-f0dab3cfe2c6.filesusr.com/ugd/8d5d69_6e5c91b2b33541db9ef225dfd8e82a2d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/defipedibe/jetunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisapovepizaj/55640363612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/faluzotixupi/18705952280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://50bf384a-eeac-4f26-a262-e2ba1a5e00ba.filesusr.com/ugd/17159d_1700ff7b175f47649694ca1132f3f420.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisute/42900613509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jinabisura/anatomical_pathology_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jenagubadopi/cadbury_report_1992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://661c91a2-68a2-4ae3-aaac-ef96b6cc7894.filesusr.com/ugd/b926a8_c9f9fb80741c40a68d190fa0ccb1523d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f2d828cf-06d9-46ea-85af-d88b0bc20d44.filesusr.com/ugd/501a20_2f61ed150e28456f9596b270d5d06a75.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://27f1a270-5048-4778-87f0-574dfe85248a.filesusr.com/ugd/b7306e_ea0fa80607d44799ae4321b6b193cbb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tonemakopinibem/target_market_analysis_format.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_off000112e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E8 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 28ef25e57c5c3ca63a246c82cce042051feb8efa2d44f929b2122d3bd9b5cb23
font_01_sfnt_off0001256c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256C 10532 bytes
SHA-256: b731e3ff8b2fb37233c601fc7a8d06a2ec62e840e804b1614de830846b1c239e