Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 307b6ba9c10396f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2020-11-24 13:10:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: e76cf1cb50ce8310600df713e6b245f3 SHA-1: 80822433c99d7b7022a3637d15090299ac859258 SHA-256: 307b6ba9c10396f13be43c93939be4693b98dfab60424372c7350793bfea6e33
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://trafffe.ru/123?utm_term=marli+van+breda+instagram PDF link annotation
    • https://jakedekokobara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381480/wozumadaku-mukevewurovebu-nefebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapilututok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341349/nuwok-popakudisa-kixewegajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziguwotameba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134345279/ffc40040a9e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tijisevivojo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502531/4c91fb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xipunozelizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382486/bfdba3fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376852/normal_5f8c686a24159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493917/normal_5fb5ccb7339f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386607/normal_5f9c1cd83fd35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaxajiwozoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/kegule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376096/normal_5f9803474497f.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/vapite/sock_hop_outfit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jupevuxirapi/newton_s_3_laws_worksheets_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zurovajij/lixinipovowawanet.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_off0000d24c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24C 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 5852c641f50a6b96afdb807030152ce99e446a079dde169b96403e8345593c9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE470 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 113410f6f16ee47cb33a056c46ef3f008b6d4dddd3f2429acc9dd55abbc8c746