Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d8196befd16c2be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-01-12 19:39:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f415507a4f1fc2977c8bf2847abec3e3 SHA-1: 77763bf61236bc3315aadc67f943a2ce81bd4743 SHA-256: 3d8196befd16c2bea16e2c15bfc0f1281530b89b8a0e12685e6c91a5e4302809
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://traffnew.ru/123?utm_term=self+representation+skills PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/femaxozimom/csSjfid/lemonade_recipe_with_fresh_lemon_juice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxipilewuzeget.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134360433/8913695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1171899.mozfiles.com/files/1171899/alien_zone_raid_mod_apk_unlimited_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1174929.mozfiles.com/files/1174929/vepukunujutaduxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nebakeji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134649015/d2bb5f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kowadesilokawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265693/e9a1564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufajagirudul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452858/joxot_dogedozisut_pinosejof_femujakined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365646/normal_5fa61a798f075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367646/normal_5fb0318e7fe7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bipakevulof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602937/gufama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000d6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AC 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 80ff562d471cb21329ceaa99d05c41b70892a053b18b5437709402c56538ba3d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F4 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 0d23cd23444376cfb7c0b9be704aa4e923549c285c8d8a7f288cfc0aeca8346f