Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4030c12c7d905ee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB Created: 2020-12-27 23:52:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 77e36915da490eac2007bccf5ce9b150 SHA-1: 203d4052e2c66cecc3e21a8e1eeaa8afff2600e3 SHA-256: 4030c12c7d905ee9250b2f9332b4780835627273305abf79ac2d869a5788da86
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The primary redirector URL, 'https://trafffe.ru/strik?utm_term=bubble+letters+alphabet+font', suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://trafffe.ru/strik?utm_term=bubble+letters+alphabet+font PDF link annotation
    • https://xusawoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739635/182483a4c2e4cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bozadukopufu/hejggeb/zibalasixowefoxovefiledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rufigukuj/38ij568/football_live_score_today_match_watch_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenizuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134615173/juliwavesekaf.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/nerugiraxura/english_speaking_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/felasorarabipis/54396913919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/falevi/39688818388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a67b822e-2e10-48be-bc0c-5282934db03a/jejobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a0f0120f-4bc5-4f58-be46-77758769f1e6/18691305028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jenagubadopi/happy_birthday_song_lyrics_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/acd457f6-2605-4d1d-b0bf-f9450c66dac3/posenilujolozapokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xovekolamoxe/15081549129.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_off0000c694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC694 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 94bea272a1012db5f146aef3b22914c24058dabdb479795d7fc3ab5bdad85db1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD826 11844 bytes
SHA-256: fa6c61c53d6f616dc8e315eab32fc4f5c795947ea938709bec6e649509a11977