Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe4eef510883f403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-05-05 11:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b7440851412e3f10ed3c0aba7deeb44f SHA-1: 77aea9d20958e2dcec1f794f685154a1c3274da2 SHA-256: fe4eef510883f40351f5b4da6abb6f65e47be576519b02220ce3e7aa20211a95
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector. ClamAV also detected the file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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=calvin+and+hobbes+comic+strip+of+the+day In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384299/normal_60405699bc7f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fidumugovoz/giCEhgz/tank_battle_1944_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4504839/normal_603c48246c31a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385848/normal_5fde87d061bc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gufezitaxato/GGGuDjf/58371757520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilawaripulopix.iblogger.org/clash_of_kings_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gijimexuv/jRVreid/top_up_flow_grenada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tojepegavatevol.iblogger.org/morphology_and_ultrastructure_of_bacteria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tezejikibus/aOidYw4/vpn_proxy_server_free_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453103/normal_6023028d6103f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wagomito/chhheE7/77203423627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jifedibodo/0YQQ9nO/lock_screen_passcode_apk_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sixerusesebu/yihgghJ/child_care_near_me_open_early.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/raxuzuvuluf/hb3jin1/twisted_metal_3_cheats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383446/normal_5fd68abb897a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pedajobu/cbYX5ja/taft_movie_theater_hollywood_fl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://dab7fb03-f2af-4a8e-9cb9-31de623bedb3.filesusr.com/ugd/58b596_109cdc5b2963403fbe66b7a048aec36d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fijosat.epizy.com/98765715625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://46c0acaa-de7d-4f46-84f0-c2cf1d8ff7d9.filesusr.com/ugd/ac1638_2657aaf136b1426789965fe2a50365e0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d75bbb92-b0e4-4b50-83e6-2443e695523b.filesusr.com/ugd/bc73b9_237c71b00b224041b39a1af08705f35c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gopikobupi.epizy.com/jesofoxataget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://737c154f-ca75-4484-807d-9d5c19d76377.filesusr.com/ugd/7e84b7_9230e33cd62b4b9fb00a9f71d9b44124.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kojajopi.epizy.com/50943480308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ede8a7a3-2377-4e09-926a-401222b31c25.filesusr.com/ugd/81c89d_1f641378d975461eb40085bdc2232c56.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_off000130e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130E4 5604 bytes
SHA-256: b2734e1d532c37e1c3e7b5ad9d3e547ec2a4e7b13fdf0059b73439d313c4fa31
font_01_sfnt_off000143c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143C9 11808 bytes
SHA-256: 1f790d7da92e7338d577c58c43d13a0288c664c6a2f5830f29605cdeba9c66e9