Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 498d13a00f8904c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2020-11-12 20:05:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 87b0e0f17d64e5484d5be60bcfb79b3a SHA-1: 261c7774f2403befe3ac4e5bb9c5913386034d32 SHA-256: 498d13a00f8904c278e6f8aa67682cf7810e8c61594963152496ed49dcb83306
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=ruth+chapter+1+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366029/normal_5f9cdcd6bb524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fepaxumezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320712/4558318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilimetib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134435282/1586960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemurowivavaxub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134404776/1218865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368485/normal_5f87e30ec1798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fujimerikav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307110/9da05ce61a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folesatabija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134441350/mipixukimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5279bc50-a6b9-42cd-a081-f6337ab8ce81/72762631480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d86977f2-0c3c-47d9-a7d3-3f6b73620e55/fiposategejowinakuweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/18969447-833d-42a6-ac74-e8fa42ad0081/zimavoguzuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dudurat/benzene__icl_alcl3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f50758f-6b0e-47cb-8664-1823ed4a5530/the_black_parade_album.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vobuturinivi/identifying_adjectives_worksheets_grade_2.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_off0001191c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1191C 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 082c7deeb653aa96f96ddf10368aadd576852b615e53795188ebb645e766d89d
font_01_sfnt_off00012b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0A 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 26c321ce683fe74d7e1c5edb23afe87d73631a37262c969d70fe34eeefc44baa