Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c60a90b951354dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2020-12-21 20:08:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8c132d5c19c38af694db415972ab1abd SHA-1: 8c3b37c2f4573fdafce980edbd9d0c99aa64c733 SHA-256: 1c60a90b951354dc851695d6a1dd86f58760e9f2efd892f72d48c722afc55d09
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with one prominent URL pointing to 'trafffe.ru'. This heuristic, combined with a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that mimics a financial factsheet, serving as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8239

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffe.ru/aws?utm_term=egerton+capital+equity+fund+factsheet
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406514/normal_5fb5424e9b521.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419425/normal_5f9f8e3ee47b4.pdf
    • https://vaxurubezinijor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690270/4812924.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483833/normal_5fcbe6623df9a.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455180/normal_5fccd2f7460ef.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418590/normal_5fbf989053d4a.pdf
    • https://naroxelilokatud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384214/cdc239e036.pdf
    • https://sumadapovememer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494733/bajuku.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/73ced912-3226-49a0-8ea1-c2ed2c8e32aa/notewomo.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xutomoxu/android_games_controller_support_2017.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4b8c1f4-b453-4b27-bd13-b5303b0744a0/90156084146.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8cbae804-5ddb-46a0-bec3-02a2b5672694/mubizojutuwidoromorub.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2974e5b5-08b0-409e-979f-be02f23dcc59/gta_v_apkdata_mediafre.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bbdbfbac-2cb6-4739-9399-e210595fc824/vodebunefan.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d8b8609-3602-424c-bc32-a14af7f126c6/92407304738.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b319c945-32f0-44b9-bdb7-a0fe8d58a7bf/historia_del_derecho_mercantil_wikipedia.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e630.bin
ed4198f030ca8c8eca19da48de53bd6215950fccd73339f630616dc484d3de39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE630 5604 bytes