Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e54de797d34edb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2020-12-18 04:49:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 19b186c274e06081ac50ff52d2b91e6a SHA-1: 5313a976644c074f553156b64716f62aba113f04 SHA-256: 3e54de797d34edb6335487eb03d0254e14ed192458582be66c991366c0caeb04
272 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a link to 'traffine.ru' with a 'utm_term' parameter suggests a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://traffine.ru/strik?utm_term=direct+federal+credit+union+routing+number In PDF document text
    • https://gozuvixonoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134517501/1cd14b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370073/normal_5f88da18c557a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vewutaniwem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/40dbcce98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liforofejot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134350560/8871575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dilukali.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584555/mubetezotow-ladukufolefex-polujevoxop-kumepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sojabejob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134890412/0fedf69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatabano.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134850833/a153f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teguvubab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347924/0203f97cadd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kilekawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134857711/kofevezukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368494/normal_5f952b85e09df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lejoxenususoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134497781/449aff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokixojegesefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134864476/3295775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc6de278b9e860b7b1d6869/t/5fcc6a1b6f0099009e5b1bc4/1607232029205/mejelumamebivodurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/donukadizolin/classical_piano_sheet_beginner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0cf3a5e8e827d428d5c84/t/5fc1b06e64571256547bc77a/1606529135221/menu_ayuno_de_daniel_21_dias.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_off0000dbe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE4 5300 bytes
SHA-256: c12aa9fc4baeeeddb1567619c33467a4e982a9933a31f1c77729783475b0f801
font_01_sfnt_off0000eddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDC 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad24617b2f225763c111b00e131c971ba1f9536a79d2e794c20798d2a83a823