Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0148d925331931f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2020-12-20 02:01:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 35a8b1e5727967bcb2eaef2cd56e99f7 SHA-1: 7d4572d2bd28578865e88b59089b40a13a91d2ed SHA-256: 0148d925331931f9c27e6852f203ce3635f55f3c02a6ea5800e0afbd75211e90
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with one pointing to 'traffine.ru', suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. Heuristics indicate a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and a 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' lure, consistent with malicious document activity. ClamAV also detected this as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?utm_term=st+landry+parish+assessor PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406213/normal_5fb2b20046523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368235/normal_5fc901d5447ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4477156/normal_5fba7323e62bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitawolilog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134860066/0716de3ac8.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/fosawef/470573585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc1b3a916f6d44b07c461c5/t/5fc6ddd2ad3e64119234a698/1606868435866/como_ver_mi_saldo_tigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fda2856d-be47-404a-8451-5d28e06ef417/tutorial_for_yellow_brick_road_quilt_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0e4a011f6a41984859e8d/t/5fcbadb721c0486e919a0d5e/1607183800251/american_football_rules_offense.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc56c853398ff75154c3188/t/5fd6dda6de5b1220c03d5bcf/1607916967169/archicad_software_free_for_windows_8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lomuper/63114185042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sigobija/wululaloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tenunud/international_phonetic_alphabet_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbe021e08845d092450d726/1606287908270/wells_fargo_online_services_login.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de9898ca-bb79-4478-bbe9-47608585d810/fumevuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbe3bc3eaf37e3b64670c43/1606302660755/laura_de_palma.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_off0000e8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DD 5252 bytes
SHA-256: b746c5e8fd35cde68ddc124c8c308999274c8f7fa783068f52d9138d72d5e905
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB4 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 514be39c82fffe65de8635427ffd8a6f5038949fab2f3191d2f66e5d78232758