Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d5be7fae9d53b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-11-06 15:42:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d327cc6785374408517c463ddba1634b SHA-1: 40753487aa9991c7e1f24964e83dd2ece0be6d3d SHA-256: 4d5be7fae9d53b442eb6ac4e49a721317d0d608734ac66b2a76c9077458c487e
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a high-confidence heuristic indicating it is a lure for SEO redirectors, specifically for 'free-download phishing'. The embedded URL, https://trafffe.ru/123?keyword=2015+bls+student+manual+printable+free, is presented as a link to a student manual, aiming to trick the user into clicking. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities or uses embedded content to achieve its malicious goal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://trafffe.ru/123?keyword=2015+bls+student+manual+printable+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381547/normal_5f9af97d5ef4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366406/normal_5f87dcc0ba6b7.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/felasorarabipis/22831358181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fekazudabo/possibilism_example_ap_human_geography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0e3de55-a6b0-43c7-846e-1275c0ff9cf7/damien_rice_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fajixe/37936952188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuguvoxoki/carnival_sunrise_deck_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zetare/mutadisilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kizugokofo/84763003354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/magapeguwabe/speed_of_trust_cards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pusori/34471693807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1d3408d-6a60-42bb-830a-f67b6b672c82/zewopotogebapasokojijodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luropi/grim_dawn_shattered_realm_farming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kigavanus/62958089407.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_off00005fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FC0 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1c9498db01dab242b6b1811a8ea68c46b54f835ce3c1e9c824023817fdd80b
font_01_sfnt_off000072f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F9 11676 bytes
SHA-256: 89155b61a7461f1828e17858802a82890ea5d6696dc208222ead5f6015700709