Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ef2d1adf0142483…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-12-19 22:35:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 253173634080ff116258d0c4e394b651 SHA-1: f5bfce15f64ab6ec8cfe1974ab714fb6033e083f SHA-256: 0ef2d1adf0142483ca215126ce7ffb08052ed8e2f755430f4787975b1303a4cc
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is designed as a phishing lure, presenting itself as an image to obscure clickable links. It contains a high density of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'traffmen.ru'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9289

Heuristics 6

  • 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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 37 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=que+son+enlaces+quimicos+pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427085/normal_5fdcb8e7015ef.pdf
    • https://fekudumubaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681201/2bba1d0.pdf
    • https://mumixopid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872042/lexiju.pdf
    • https://sezariserafuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134673330/wenav.pdf
    • https://vaxinukosiju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134625250/nawifi.pdf
    • https://kawepuwaseleza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134849925/nofebaju.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460981/normal_5fb66f35b8ee8.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kitakilesa/71294177155.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luropi/13303612926.pdf