Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1462db8ba1f441f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2020-11-17 02:57:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b39eb44696575457bd8220935886a13d SHA-1: ba35313e4363d63eb94d50111ef945a25613cf1c SHA-256: 1462db8ba1f441f6a787d40e70c8fc5aa9a1be5b04a92cc785b0cb469bf44c54
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malicious redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?utm_term=64+unblocked+games+at+school In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388280/normal_5f951c0c48d4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vodexekuteb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776001/korezukumidere-zotapokekava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386622/normal_5fabfefb15c4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sejejuno.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134447194/bb9142e28f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megadezatesaram.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776649/a3d71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keruzexutebimoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310977/lozubix-virokosuwidewin-madafebudulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xavujome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739328/komaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekuxiwefajup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739023/redepeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moguvikob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874292/a3795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozegujulukov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134459046/wuvivenedolap_bowovovozag.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/e480b437-038e-4577-adc8-5e7dadb769fb/first_aid_for_the_psychiatry_clerkship_fifth_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64325e7b-0dd4-4914-aaa2-72211658e04d/ps_i_love_you_book_writer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bizamesuwepe/8778999181.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_off0000e808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE808 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 16971e2b16a7d01517e3e593894b8e12dabcaa53dc0a96828f2aa2b2e79c2932
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA59 11012 bytes
SHA-256: edca8eaf12e0076a5193c0d5ed5e17114d7727053714f0daf27d7538ec4b03ac
font_02_sfnt_off00012004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12004 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c