Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1150334e60ac02bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-12-02 22:49:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e49a8b9772d29dcdb20cc60b39b13978 SHA-1: fa4d928d9e9cd3b5f8695edde702f5646a2228e6 SHA-256: 1150334e60ac02bf1846a158319f9d48ce68216c82366d2ea1d1975a7b557b04
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically using an image to redirect users to a malicious URL. The embedded URL `https://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=million+dollar+habits+brian+tracy+pdf` is identified as a redirector for SEO-based phishing. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8112

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=million+dollar+habits+brian+tracy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450347/normal_5fad4044316fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368477/normal_5fbaa3290ad83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386830/normal_5fc4f60542a25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415974/normal_5f95e903e155d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366633/normal_5fac61c9b15c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366646/normal_5fc51b5a19ef7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbfd2c30b6b03258f2f7c3b/t/5fc48a1018e72e5fdb69abcc/1606715927040/sonic_apk_uptodown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc5195eabaecd33183d5d49/t/5fc60bf0f8cdb769c6b2e041/1606814704358/92415432834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbdefd8145a8629dc757f67/1606283224777/why_is_the_case_gitlow_v_new_york_important_quizlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbe15fef81c9a2a0c6a5597/1606292994503/what_area_code_is_714_belong_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b8b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B2 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 8f16de21624c726f005fbcd13a632f9ff434eab59da35921b6231353649d119e