Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2581f37ec574ccce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.9 KB Created: 2020-12-24 07:17:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 02dd9f0366054fb89cc70ae989ed952a SHA-1: b71af94fcefcd50280c0618e63bc717081a65b25 SHA-256: 2581f37ec574ccce6c088fca32302c49e2fc49914602627509af64b2a4f1ddc7
186 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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious or spam content, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious 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
  • 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/aws?utm_term=the+sea+john+banville+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://tanifovekula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379991/lonivamoripomitisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kifesajisibak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884742/lugufadenipil-rewid-mebot-gemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tibiwurab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695994/3209526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://votarozoxanobo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315144/8331361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fesitafixob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653549/ladesavojixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rulorakaduf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134480735/2700988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463810/normal_5fcabcdd9900c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bavipemafenun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398101/nakem_nugilekufukesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416327/normal_5fd1a4e737fb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af5d9e2f-7249-451d-9ac6-d5f60618dd1a/lajega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/posufij/daily_lesson_plan_templates_for_teachers.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_off0000c8ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EE 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 941f6096d2ea8ad1f59fbc0a5e9d6b9d9577ffb2c85452000b1d1e504012b7fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000dad6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD6 10668 bytes
SHA-256: fb512dadbde3a304b5c4964f632416d89cc9f3fc4085d0cab8c5dff1f6b9b6dd

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