Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018ec9e252f88cae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2020-12-06 00:50:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10a3bd1a475018097c5cf696e804b8a7 SHA-1: b3b13dc544df2ebf5c8d8b4f10f544761115251c SHA-256: 018ec9e252f88caed14e7121eb5a8dd0f7de9db5f77679d3b9c3342856240f52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The PDF contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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=keras+loss+functions+custom
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368223/normal_5f8d7e3772ce7.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367680/normal_5fa6ce2c40ba9.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_5f872ef29d067.pdf
    • https://rutizinudepedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134483735/bepobutil.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4469863/normal_5fcc04302608a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379233/normal_5f8dbebc18ac6.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446491/normal_5fc9bafb48dc8.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387226/normal_5fbd7b66de959.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbd2f15e1f2823a1206060e/1606233877628/ffxiv_how_to_make_gil_as_culinarian.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc27a90c14dfd36fefb8bc0/t/5fc686d0e6d49a06bb764b0f/1606846161780/84259871873.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/787951fe-5eeb-4908-922e-8d3f4ad3aa95/call-and-response_definition_speech.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a8c59cd-6105-4bf2-8936-67c09346b7dc/61553571984.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d83e.bin
8eb7ad1caffdb918509c3dc7775fd5e73214a82686d98c0aa26081ca4b931cfd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83E 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e928.bin
15cb3b0fb5a495a1c696831103f113a4bfa8dbe9538bae606c103a86052597c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE928 11228 bytes