Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cbb4d949b6733c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2020-11-26 09:09:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 17ef78345310e60c753a17050529624c SHA-1: c8b22ee4868b3b6f4a90eefad6f1116553b75003 SHA-256: 0cbb4d949b6733c045bb85b3668eb7f3df2e2f4925b0abd24f65e8267e871cdf
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services and a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ClamAV detection suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=mega+miner+game+2+play+online In PDF document text
    • https://sujofunipus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502209/9a1c21986ae1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bexoligimes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314561/sekolowedexaxen-numejifig-basibew-jifuredoxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siregudak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738759/gigovofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuvirinofibugiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070402/7889752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wejakoguxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134324676/dulonagom_gonovusitilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasedowazapen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320052/zuwisigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovasuseburipir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134394860/5698430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerewetazawupej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134384555/futoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43aa7504-51bc-43bd-9fad-7ff33907e5ec/ruxuzowenipufepapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/447db035-35c0-4340-bc82-d9237ac7d049/tulexesexilijijifesevijop.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f86b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86B 4908 bytes
SHA-256: a04a3c8739681d290da0fc17ce119792d8c7ee571e62824d06c03ded8c5e7ac8
font_01_sfnt_off00010903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10903 10356 bytes
SHA-256: fd2d0b2c8c5103a1bec88d924356f676e9308caeb5a632e2be25d71dafca4dbe
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f