Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a7fff2c26ee97b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-01-22 13:04:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8f605b2bcedb1b56dab6aa6e0b3fb3de SHA-1: e7aca0c69ebc438c0b23322ceb5452062b89bba8 SHA-256: 4a7fff2c26ee97b15455b6849053715fb7f7b40e9670c2d3e310fe2f21d6eedf
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable or redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of a link to 'traffmen.ru' suggests a malicious redirector is involved in the attack chain. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and link farm nature of the PDF strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=wishful+drinking+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nonuripot/Hmii9hb/fuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tidelefuzin/jajfOjf/32874522846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lolajelor/hggjq2l/international_superstar_soccer_2_snes_rom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bivaxijo/eidf3id/the_walking_dead_our_world_cheats_deutsch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rosojolude/jiiarVT/pugapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suwudaxodorepe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885248/fesevevowememamujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puwobero.22web.org/bmeg_feeding_guide_for_poultry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxorurifina/kPibeid/lajugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuxazigozo/iewghU3/best_app_to_limit_screen_time_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/joxipadij/hgidhfv/setesogaruluzezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xedufoga/bjfcEjc/marketplace_grille_carmel_valley_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wakuwuwosabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776519/7fdcbfc96885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jukonejidar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876273/3684101.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/jipowumat/3m_laser_printer_labels_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kotodur/72824843174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/watajive/20309967891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vulemeke.rf.gd/dasaledul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wemiwapava.epizy.com/android_root_software_for_pc_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanorolowu/android_broadcast_receiver_service.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_off0000e302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE302 5168 bytes
SHA-256: c2a6815fb86656453c1a993a34e9f4a69b0d6ab45f2fcccf9e84a9411814b2d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A7 10792 bytes
SHA-256: bab388ef86c57f99cbaf6d3be13fd27717f7a4f383a7e9fa47e00f02453592dd