Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15ee51d3e67cde36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-01-09 22:46:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 11bb079359dff6dcd0e49a2eea7b43b0 SHA-1: 59faebe1eb697b2ce87f8b3148740d6d6219fa2b SHA-256: 15ee51d3e67cde36e6b717056f98cb47a84f6e917ee1226e4288e5dd9999dbcd
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious websites, masquerading as a search result for "Pirates of the Caribbean piano sheet musescore". The presence of multiple links to disposable hosting and a known malicious redirector indicates a clear intent to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://gettraff.ru/aws?utm_term=pirates+of+the+caribbean+piano+sheet+musescore In PDF document text
    • https://zamosokajuzosa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651904/beximigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusaluzope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374665/4461534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxazutip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610322/dedojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1168018.mozfiles.com/files/1168018/mgvcl_electricity_bill_check_gujarat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukonixivuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969652/foxumujar_sogijine_zinefemipenewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kedosesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853013/bf437745d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolojimopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134887070/0acfcb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renobikedasel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134897329/9294190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuvapevamasazu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507747/kevabikedofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/penale/breakdown_sheets_film.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zafaronivaj/adobe_flash_player_23_ppapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fobupojowojon/34189142383.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF72 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 1c0131990da5aee0cdd5a885679761254c71aa2fdbd536e249c4253f53fe2ba6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD184 11552 bytes
SHA-256: d7d62623bd922b82683c3702cce3431a373a03782fa4c099f2aa86f43286218d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF834 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501