Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 441e8f9bbd986a3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB Created: 2021-01-12 16:08:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a42958dd3af8a893641db43c16fbadf3 SHA-1: 54c63f628fae716b867e28fdff0bf62b45826959 SHA-256: 441e8f9bbd986a3e41ae73ee933a8b8e6f4b4add6994c90d960eee071bc52a1d
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or disposable hosting. The document's content appears to be a lure, disguised as a 'vehicle accident report template', to drive users to these malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?utm_term=vehicle+accident+report+template In PDF document text
    • https://jadamoxor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135344742/voruliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gopepilexafi/koieEgd/fizijotasizubopibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1177725.mozfiles.com/files/1177725/afpsat_online_registration_form_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokepitamewema.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135325242/bc1f4edef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boziwukajolefix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711983/timage-jorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barurusijibipek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740419/vuzomiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1175763.mozfiles.com/files/1175763/78857449316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metubunotawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595280/d6bdf.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/sesafefanulokam/nurusavixorofisafome.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_off0000bf38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF38 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 7f413044584a38cfd225895a9743ca379fecfcf72450997d4a9b0301dc638207
font_01_sfnt_off0000d06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD06A 9652 bytes
SHA-256: 1a0b57540049b622846a0dac9359ad9ae5171597940356e44cd595c4f487badd