Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13b6d3a5cf80e1e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-12-22 17:49:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5dc2464a96bc9601bf8cb0565f30556d SHA-1: 990bbd7f67d42c27070fe4870361a139438be403 SHA-256: 13b6d3a5cf80e1e9d67f6a078d2c187001f8826f67cd0eae1fcb76b1cd1200b7
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector. It links to a known malicious URL, 'https://traffine.ru/strik?utm_term=whale+shark+attack+simulator+2019', which is likely used to deliver a second-stage payload or phish for credentials. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://traffine.ru/strik?utm_term=whale+shark+attack+simulator+2019 In PDF document text
    • https://wafiludelo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437380/184354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teligodinawam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457670/felixu_vilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kikuvabafot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332304/vukapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pimapavidi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740410/bikevepu_xupan_mufukoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393790/normal_5fc86283e9367.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://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc7b538feeefa0c0b63a799/t/5fd6dff5ab77727176a230b3/1607917566291/fivakutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78af58e2-3440-4bf6-a933-c0d33ff7ee17/interactive_project_management_dashboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf908fb9-5387-4e28-9e58-db564af5ccf0/ucsd_cse_100_fall_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc345e6affbf90a66f9bf12/t/5fcd1cb983d2ac65cc1a49e1/1607277754664/9663408394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0e8305687f52b6b812c21/t/5fc6a9fca97599144ee47a85/1606855164689/14336521132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc7bb2e04a8c57c148c4860/t/5fca2d0c1a258d244fe7acd3/1607085324946/amtrak_schedule_oceanside_california.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_off0000b785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB785 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 04287e2bbf2e4ac29161120f8b6d3cfd22a591601b248bc6a18ffeeef32f7383
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9DB 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba8ff59cd1ffd4aed5d4545b43679eabc01afa1e7c488f9a0cc552c696d566b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE01 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230