Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d9a298c948c2ef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2020-11-26 03:38:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bafe30c4db7bf73303310cf210da2bb7 SHA-1: d60ff75809dfeae825e4c455748f514c748ab50d SHA-256: 3d9a298c948c2ef1487c6dae6e2f7a45e4dc25e76ec50c50adbfd76b8c9601fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a PDF link farm, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs points towards a potential redirection to malicious sites or further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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=business+english+pdf+lessons
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393035/normal_5f9b12abc4a8e.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448713/normal_5fb6d6d1489c8.pdf
    • https://fimosezit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775491/eb5a71ae5.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450345/normal_5fa990034fea3.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365525/normal_5f9de3ce72655.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wifukedot/rugokokamasasuvofifularov.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/acd42a00-3f0a-4f4d-88ea-d4edc14cf203/72639211666.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/32c49ef8-4945-45c5-a17d-7b7d9136d6a5/rimerexolirarusugegufuse.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c642274-83e1-429f-b6a1-f8b5bcec5cda/fimidigesedafakegamobama.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jujojomojemiz/launceston_tv_guide.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf05.bin
8362e1164faca70e3900df42e6fa2b2698658ff8db97bfe367209bf7ed9a7140
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF05 4848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df70.bin
027111af3e2bc2c8724476bfd569a89d383040e1242aec5b8624d77eebecc49d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF70 10692 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103ee.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EE 4324 bytes