Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc0cc3df7b983bda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-03-13 16:48:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: d305c195e835dc805addcabf5b3adc2d SHA-1: d88faaed4b276f7d5b288d9df519c06146532d2c SHA-256: fc0cc3df7b983bda9d639af61d6d270cbc2521d5b8a116827c3f8d27ae0a2f78
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate it is a link farm designed to direct users to malicious infrastructure, specifically flagging a link to 'yafferge.ru'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=berliner+morgenpost+archiv+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kefets.xyz/sijonukubokekejolutaxa4nawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/verexoleki/otiaFgg/darulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiinorama.website/kadenivonomesijipekcjdui.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/morexemodoju/HhjiaHR/dream_daddy_hugo_date_3_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/susononuz/khcjije/little_alchemy_2_cheats_swamp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://setlyb.online/17713631964o9ejz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuette.me/24528405383ge1kn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisabor.design/bppv_exercises_spanishx9gp8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kososojog/EaphjSG/ios_14_favorite_contacts_widget_missing.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/95f5f5e1-02c0-4f16-8ce4-3a2e2b18bb8c/789406685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://56db2a4d-09ce-4ff6-a558-abb1d6727cd4.filesusr.com/ugd/003b86_c3916a0029fa42b296aa18e44b08ba3b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67a27e07-c6c7-40d2-b27a-9ccf31501d06/87548865478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69831668-c8af-466b-bcbb-343a951e4bd6/what_is_langston_hughes_best_known_for.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/705fd52f-d08a-4e3d-81dd-f626a07e3570/rovupalaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://67dec473-0a9c-497c-80b1-62a4c84c5046.filesusr.com/ugd/0aab01_75d2613fc1384c1b9fef3e313fe86257.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e53c8fcc-339b-4d8f-83f6-44ddc8c6ace4.filesusr.com/ugd/1ea9c4_94f69902df4c4f19b1eee42eeeefd1a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2267253a-0bce-49fb-bd01-25b52733132c/wazefibokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbae088b-fe62-40e6-abbb-d5bb8d457d28/how_much_can_the_ram_ecodiesel_tow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01be873e-2b2a-4e81-bec3-47d4485159e8/dell_as501_speaker_installation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d243c615-e75f-49df-b176-712a21b7db08/pharmacotherapy_handbook_10th_edition_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d233545b-e338-4bf5-b09a-d49dc4536bdd/installing_sunsetter_awning_on_vinyl_siding.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cee4a208-09ac-40e0-983f-4c2cc776acbe.filesusr.com/ugd/5ed537_32ace01832354977a28041f99e109171.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000e5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E1 5680 bytes
SHA-256: 321f461648c40b406d0b50bbb983d7a57ee0cb030c37867c529d7359b20f96de
font_01_sfnt_off0000f914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF914 12084 bytes
SHA-256: b26d12dd845277d648f7b390bc1373bc2b8a37ebf0033ce3bfb44df435842426