Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20f767476c97b7f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-01-16 13:50:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ad2649d97326b0bffdee3c3712a3ba67 SHA-1: c8904344283e9417f1b419bb1026fbd709d1a249 SHA-256: 20f767476c97b7f0fd0addcc08f0aa000b814095023c8f190db288fcd2b31f64
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting or known malicious redirectors. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lead the user to phishing or malware download sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, not user-facing content.

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
  • 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://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=the+jungle+quotes+about+corruption In PDF document text
    • https://webebusili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969565/12a9e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384652/normal_5fa0aee882b8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403689/normal_5ff2fe688e65d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litusavetedi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134445261/13dc98569412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366376/normal_5f8ce4a23d1cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wumunelopilum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134395902/11a3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zukodefikarux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134498552/domarovufuwibana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rivitovolu/7A68Yjc/ice_cream_cake_strain_aeriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norofuzalugegok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882219/3577737.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/kavalukato/gubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vuzotisenixava/marxisme_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lusegokaves/real_life_example_of_lysosome.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_off0000f2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B1 5484 bytes
SHA-256: ddac53758c1f49d4b97bd57ea9dd8b66957d7266c2dbb5c1580a9275363f88b8
font_01_sfnt_off00010554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10554 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 4dd3ba23ca99eed646a800fabbd79e1d0d18261bb276e9756f105897784c4fe1