Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d2f80c1a6ace25f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-01-14 06:47:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6bd50614de8d534372d391e302581a27 SHA-1: 247bd72b10cd0a01729f630f6a6fca01a4c29946 SHA-256: 3d2f80c1a6ace25fe790d0345179648f4ca7990680f1460b97155b1c7e328f5d
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or known redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

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://gettraff.ru/123?utm_term=revised+bloom%2527s+taxonomy+verb+wheel In PDF document text
    • https://site-1177580.mozfiles.com/files/1177580/bass_clarinet_scale_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voranafirodibug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/sutopew-kiluta-fomunuvidovelut-natorodanedewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajozopikikaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134359408/fuzuguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muwalivom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695892/2352585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1171394.mozfiles.com/files/1171394/32393793585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolafevofi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135330218/kiwojutuvuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1249145.mozfiles.com/files/1249145/ca_dmv_restricted_license_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuzafezinaxav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319976/rubakiferekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369327/normal_5ffb6d543aa3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392218/normal_5ffc7540e19b6.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/zasepo/breville_grind_control_coffee_maker_manual.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_off0000e0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D1 5568 bytes
SHA-256: dfa5162b373b2d8bdee162923fe76d4b3118e727e19ff84ee6396fc19bceef1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B3 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 6ab398202acf4684b8f0d5623936b28f31702e14358d757b3c8a609a99a9f60d