Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a88b282f61c710d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB Created: 2021-01-23 22:45:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 0e49e76cd8e9edef6d117b02732e6031 SHA-1: cb44eaa77e0a6ee194253dcc66e4c6d206fbac41 SHA-256: 4a88b282f61c710dc7786c59a19548c1f0f8357fa4453cdaf4232ebaa941cc77
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one pointing to 'traffking.ru', a known malicious domain. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=99+ranch+market+hours PDF link annotation
    • https://site-1178858.mozfiles.com/files/1178858/factoring_trinomials_practice_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366050/normal_5feafeee8d09d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1174433.mozfiles.com/files/1174433/38323297069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1168287.mozfiles.com/files/1168287/doctor_fields_list_and_salaries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1180330.mozfiles.com/files/1180330/microsoft_teams_for_mac_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzotupisebi.66ghz.com/8394719192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latopilufazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017217/1389580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4490739/normal_5fd5f5b65183e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1181071.mozfiles.com/files/1181071/78102761756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donabetolemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637402/limajuvivezasukoxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4458840/normal_5fe1a69aae897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1178449.mozfiles.com/files/1178449/switzerland_english_language_assistant.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1166620.mozfiles.com/files/1166620/80344397473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4444657/normal_5ffbd4e8191c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sajipesexadagon.epizy.com/gimuratazufogisodutudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laganomezavarof.epizy.com/84064371981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rojapaj.epizy.com/pokinuredigemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bususetut.epizy.com/whatsapp_status_video_sad_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wekameti.rf.gd/nasafipajovigixipomegexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibalaluroxute.epizy.com/vaaste_song_mr._jatt._com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ribaxekag.epizy.com/secondary_alveolar_bone_grafting.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00017a94.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x17A94 29072 bytes
SHA-256: 3da5b738623d2c103271e1e071ee7ae1a0583cff60b401fd16125005be22bf13
font_00_sfnt_off00012680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12680 7792 bytes
SHA-256: 92526564ecd213113bb1e9d73ea6b9fc8b4da724316b1de91d17b3a1948b720a
font_01_sfnt_off00014037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14037 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 4a0a810cfa21a84cddab4a07f6916491ee990c2b36eb3f342af47ac4dc558a32
font_02_sfnt_off00015177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15177 13260 bytes
SHA-256: 51823883c68514c9145fbad4283dced4b320d44daba2fe8d54818b0fe8c0aeb1