Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff803ccdf63d7cf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB Created: 2021-04-01 08:26:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 4dd7f1e83778bff33399ef3a3a217f85 SHA-1: 655b2e590adb0c6919af56051dca431ad59f8fd8 SHA-256: ff803ccdf63d7cf38c56527d57566c669797cc7987169e8e91b07d81aafdb32a
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 domains and redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS firings strongly suggest malicious intent. The ClamAV detection further corroborates this, identifying the file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure of the PDF point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=asm+study+manual+exam+p+16th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://felevigapoboxoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135299972/dozowidabajapiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokawinopigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712062/656390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vodazifuja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265633/kifudilunezij-dopetumekopofus-tiril-fonenomawoxuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421461/normal_5fc91b9a0f2c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/putuziboki/jih9Vib/balls_brawl_3d_mod_apk_android_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bezofusipow/YA5dMhj/siberian_cat_for_sale_memphis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486213/normal_5fd7d38325c58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417313/normal_602aad5cc4334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/duwenaxiseve/ngfKgg6/my_sprint_rewards_customer_service_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikoxujedogusu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134665618/87427f6345f48c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413573/normal_6050544be88c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rizanatu/23ghAjh/sasusunalunigonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bupizezar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853483/55fc3883c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://438e95ed-c264-4db5-88d3-1a9ca8b91b86.filesusr.com/ugd/733c1f_cfb80598d6c644b5a617024fdaf508a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a84030a7-2e48-4039-807a-383e2b7216cc.filesusr.com/ugd/c5d40f_a8bfc98a1880435c90c47a3cb8d3fdb9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://599b09cd-7b6a-4758-94a3-08a08d316165.filesusr.com/ugd/628a76_bb11e4d000364e50a45555f294428a71.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ba10d46a-d7c1-43af-8542-f1a50f31aa8a.filesusr.com/ugd/4dded2_434411f990bc440ebc8d7878d336ade9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://27dd58ca-3bab-4825-b0a2-cb75a9f796de.filesusr.com/ugd/aba4c5_95241c9f89de4c229d970768fdc75db9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3df06c22-1e8a-4082-8cc2-a0fdc0609706.filesusr.com/ugd/d86e81_638423e2f9d64fcfbe2b163ee84b0596.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d1b33a7b-cde1-45d4-bc15-d4d3b6236ac5.filesusr.com/ugd/1d64af_db79797571814f20a58af9b9143d21fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cd9ed9ec-87d1-42be-9198-0b2de6c1db4d.filesusr.com/ugd/158fb9_788ace16e0be4171aeec735f206cb0c1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://68fdcf0a-b1f0-4758-9edf-48d2be6d990b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac51ce_d4d539e9be74403185f505f94eeedbae.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE192 35380 bytes
SHA-256: 5402d8402533bdfe570c993f4274ec4c83eb0318491e8b96740c85bc87ad0d12
font_01_sfnt_off00014eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EB5 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfaa718420a81791a46ae6173cf6cbabb80cc39235c94c67ed7717e6d475c96
font_02_sfnt_off0001618c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1618C 11560 bytes
SHA-256: b83d2135cd34470e4e2572e7235b32e370aaa22b594438808e6e9529f384d10c