Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ffbc72e0d1f4cdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.6 KB Created: 2021-01-14 10:32:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 1198e19a25f17ada14f4f08188e30314 SHA-1: e85491d524fb8951dafd271bfab7fc9c07ffdb1f SHA-256: 1ffbc72e0d1f4cdf5eab7086937b855ef116408cde9745526e7d63652ad6cab3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to drive traffic to various websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO manipulation. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://trafffe.ru/aws?utm_term=king+single+flannelette+sheets+kmart PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366982/normal_5fa1174b27cb2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1176177.mozfiles.com/files/1176177/never_have_i_ever_questions_college_dirty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jumirusuvowelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134632856/6077323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/loxepafigav/gjgcjfk/pipupepugisufetimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fovipobex/hchh1jc/80425808236.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/zagapaxa/28951063241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tibitexil/67348353683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanowilovuviwib/16419125391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/titugome/16064685010.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_off0000b48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB48D 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 03cd91a3704a8acd26e5b9f08ca4ce0964ad6c0a2e52db5f0dda5476b440c3d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC626 10632 bytes
SHA-256: f13bc9f56ea4c22ceec59e05428b67dbb06243f8491da978beaf442a82bdb1f0