Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04c149e3a2534c97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2021-01-04 17:42:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 308e6ce3b7733a98e5c473703212c603 SHA-1: 3fb74ab53b576dc132226b277d49925fa5b63ff6 SHA-256: 04c149e3a2534c976d9c1f1adf26b2cfee650d7be9e9ec786d634660ab8f5c3d
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as a malicious redirector and link farm. It contains numerous links to external sites, with at least one pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document body is largely unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7801

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=melioidosis+treatment+guideline+%25E0%25B9%2584%25E0%25B8%2597%25E0%25B8%25A2
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    • https://baxikulalul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134582220/3575753.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6996351-29b6-4a23-9d76-178afe200ec2/78558201303.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a35e92c-0d6c-4e59-a610-42334ff9bacc/elements_of_music_notation.pdf
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