Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0441e7c0027e4ca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2020-11-18 10:46:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5a2a6fab7afc8e593cd9cb8ab2b7a1b2 SHA-1: 5125509159bb13ef1e4f437296d98997a758d0b9 SHA-256: 0441e7c0027e4ca290ac8d24ce3068a3c6cf5072f1c24371b148bc45ca5add1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on link farm domains, suggesting a SEO poisoning or phishing campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://trafffi.ru/strik?utm_term=asvab+word+knowledge
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389366/normal_5fa5f28149282.pdf
    • https://fodezamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407453/zuvekazabuz-topofelo-gupolekodojavo-ponabiloxe.pdf
    • https://dimaxafazeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/8767144.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415045/normal_5f9cfa459616a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370057/normal_5f9122d265822.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369313/normal_5f99cf9cd9ec7.pdf
    • https://betirowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134661799/4235674.pdf
    • https://jetizapu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371104/2877297.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375095/normal_5f899ccb282d7.pdf
    • https://repugonajipivup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814926/8563257.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379726/normal_5fa435de097fa.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383928/normal_5f8bdc5fd6d76.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09759acc-80d6-4509-9594-aec47a01fe1e/27041313881.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_off0000c95e.bin
46cf26265bd650ae80cdf080d98adef8bb00af1af3ff875742e406d4bd6efa1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC95E 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbad.bin
09efaf06f30c5f8b7f2913a19318e805c977d6e0ac674cbffcb1982d93d60315
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBAD 10056 bytes