Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 185e4b03235109ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2020-11-13 12:42:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0e13865ea82abf181001d71db3a287d3 SHA-1: 1d933d90c51cb8d557a937060c3ff25b4f51225f SHA-256: 185e4b03235109ba1c03c351d918e298d85ccfab4b47dce8f7b2b9da964a3194
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=guide+to+network+defense+and+countermeasures', which is designed to phish users. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=guide+to+network+defense+and+countermeasures In PDF document text
    • https://vegilirebaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070576/wozafosiza_pefalix_molevutofasenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajosapisede.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344890/3351857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamalirigade.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595912/2529574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxitasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454719/vevenen-xasunedovati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuguzakinizole.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493236/6435777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodirunesu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874391/1532254.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/votawawo/33522580286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuxadol/parts_of_animal_cell_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tofizo/autismo_infantil_caracteristicas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vobuturinivi/berserk_official_guidebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc4c88fd-200c-455b-b0df-996caf2ee532/masonry_heater_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lovomijelun/usatestprep_answers_economics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8575f56b-85e3-475d-8913-ed7f78870047/zupufosovifefarunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vopadofugon/drift_hunter_hacked_unblocked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e4c11ad-7af3-4a4b-86c3-57e23b98875b/wuzisuzefororepu.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8DD 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 7ccbc8663dab4c411505937ac5b2d3f1b06094984050ab1646c9cb545e4289f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000caff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFF 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 3d43f74160b61da04ce2a92f71038c3b265918fbc3a38ea4a1be3234316a2327