Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 234118288d38176d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2020-12-18 08:21:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 0766c4c18ca5d87ef50bbe662497805d SHA-1: e0f5661733cb8a1bab0a917dc929964ef9e40913 SHA-256: 234118288d38176d18aba229cac1399237885047ff02795cd1f11aa68e9a6bd0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it links to a known malicious redirector, specifically `https://ggtraff.ru/123?utm_term=delta+iota+alpha+kappa+alpha`. This URL is presented as a lure for a free download, a common phishing tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/123?utm_term=delta+iota+alpha+kappa+alpha In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406501/normal_5fa22ade35593.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/labitajaxatufib/69140653295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c40151c8-a59b-4524-9e1b-4ad7a2e8d730/seriously_im_kidding_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba174bc7-0e57-471f-b8a5-f35fb0ec4f7e/7396373644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1821ddd5-98f3-49b8-abac-f26fb5be8422/riddell_mini_helmets_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wilugugo/sazaxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wopari/video_audio_cutter_software_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dcd4eaf0-2abb-4444-91d7-86be74d0e177/satanael_gun_build.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanowilovuviwib/86609512649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc169478139af037648d9ed/t/5fc529063485235c866c1a7f/1606756620668/bell_child_bike_seat_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tiduro/descargar_biblia_de_estudio_esquematizada_reina_valera_1960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6321acf-e0d4-485e-88e8-ce04087b0bdc/biology_chapter_3_the_biosphere_test_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4e544cb-4689-4513-9084-0327be7989a2/xafig.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_off0000ca20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA20 4696 bytes
SHA-256: 6e09b8e60ce670026b7b184e07a995effd4efcc5b40ea50713870c330b7264b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000da1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1C 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 319c88acd246d3bff45c7925d32575eca7396447d5b42c10630b51759e98a007