Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bdb814a75563f53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2020-12-28 08:50:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 097d9f81e614b0c49e1d4cd2b285e88e SHA-1: e6289a65966a0cd70c01d2eada010c731c641d9c SHA-256: 1bdb814a75563f535323dd2680937af9b415bdec0ba5e3ffe714a4a9ae1f804b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable platforms like Weebly. The primary URL, trafffi.ru, is associated with search engine optimization tactics, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffi.ru/wb?keyword=shopee%2012.%2012%20christmas%20sale%20downloads PDF link annotation
    • https://ximazula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738777/dufola_kefarivuguf_tufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomexufimewaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134517434/226882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofazodasi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873943/1abcb37d8b44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wumefabifu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134888429/4196106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobemorisawelav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108772/0a1c08229de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kobizixudowizeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134402546/3622444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibezabivodigif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407310/78314b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jinikegubu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873825/9415147.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/nakevoja/urdu_books_library_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gelawiweza/3277468331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xumakomowi/2625681889.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_off0000eb42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB42 5724 bytes
SHA-256: a73ede80e26dd48ac1f029930d226bbd3d41a0ff7d81f3c102daa15c3ff0a516
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB1 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 420292b79c56020e844fa65468f46ada41cbfc3ed16dd1daab59a675036e93de