Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41f22665be062b59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2020-11-14 06:34:19 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 56a3c495a3f2da11bbe387e15f442079 SHA-1: d2ebbe9b24eb8787c77ad7011bd5ea18901800a8 SHA-256: 41f22665be062b59ac9faefceabc6755d1d3b4fc03c4c999347dfb56877b7085
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that uses the guise of providing 'Adirondack chair plans' to host a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malware. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing or trojan variant. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://trafffi.ru/strik?utm_term=adirondack+chair+plans+free+pdf+metr
    • https://mejulima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040536/vadapozutigat.pdf
    • https://juporolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380745/64574e707272.pdf
    • https://dowezepuxaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134463959/xobatiwokav_kotozelesagasup_lurixonolebag.pdf
    • https://kosemarenile.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315061/791b6e9144.pdf
    • https://nazivuwe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134452961/7666149.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sutawowirosuvuv/simplifying_negative_radicals_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2136eac1-3290-42c6-b04a-a3d45887a95e/34844028993.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuxadol/6766244461.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/027a0ccc-a23b-4b5e-90a6-5f2f3dff6383/64604792031.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c121f98a-e733-43af-92b3-359e7a5df4e0/mozidevovikubositaz.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mubefula/56419140761.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vibuvomomuv/zekejeludi.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xutomoxu/76888637559.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4a2.bin
8acfe9fff9564eae343bc03f897609c28e4384b80e55fbef4614b76607b0d872
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A2 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e705.bin
b6b2fae492e6c33d6026baf4d7cfdca26ad04a4e9753e74601926a6dc193bee1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE705 10980 bytes