Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c8169c488e0e2c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2020-12-03 17:37:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a99a4c96f4e21187c910e7f5bb4c7ae0 SHA-1: 14280ca66164e050dc7180cec684c5a87a19947e SHA-256: 3c8169c488e0e2c18a9aa45154b28b4b83f482474877b6d3692ee24ba3c281f2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a heuristic indicating a 'Browser extension / update installation lure', suggesting a social-engineering tactic to trick users into installing malicious software. The presence of an external URI pointing to 'trafftec.ru' further supports this, as it is likely the destination for the malicious download. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://trafftec.ru/aws?utm_term=disattivare+aggiornamenti+app+in+background+android
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0ea21c30a162e0c52977d/t/5fc38b1008845d0924f755b9/1606650648840/minecraft_easter_eggs_and_secrets.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc5aa440b6b03258f55d983/t/5fc8cfb3d6e0cc37e345a15f/1606995896917/igo_navigation_android_sd_card.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woberiz/baca_center_round_rock_texas.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/welutizenop/81492078208.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7b50b5e-211a-4469-bc54-bb341388c565/zesowowopegojomo.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbf6887fa04221c71187c69/1606379655845/76189900125.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebomedug/74887880295.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fapaga/mizafiragogufatowegapapul.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0e800a879396864085b93/t/5fc330941972c46e3c061922/1606627476883/jusibenoda.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fufaragebo/twilight_google_docs.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da3a.bin
d32784977a3e2f991eed7c7a1610c14cbe0b113770e38d40f470381024235d10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3A 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed53.bin
4ad8da6b28cde48ea14b07a7d2e5e8b9457325f8fbe29cca38045234b91969b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED53 10292 bytes