Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f46daa6108a43c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-01-04 16:35:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22ef6eca08e3146433aa763f966f71ab SHA-1: 7dc3b29d2ea7dd3287f027d2c859996729d94663 SHA-256: 4f46daa6108a43c1ff3cc2613fdd860db9a6e74da84ad94cbbf8956f36ba6d02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Weebly and S3-based PDF files, indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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/aws?utm_term=oswald+demi+bold+font
    • https://bivovupoxewoko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380626/c40a9d.pdf
    • https://gisixumaxen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856636/8501730.pdf
    • https://nubajegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814178/febikarorovezolirowa.pdf
    • https://xofijenafoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135349300/digijozevun-vijulu-bezil-tobotuwazewadi.pdf
    • https://wawenefawopi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494228/e0939f379.pdf
    • https://vubumemor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012760/8276058.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/geradi/85338448272.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bifamomove/bpsc_64th_mains_question_paper.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vaxebisapesi/pilobalifelagonotowotomop.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dutimajizowa/sojas_wagle_s.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ximupuv/69800822814.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/naxozelozude/ronomosekamimisow.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sesijesule/apocalypto_2_free_movie.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d33d.bin
d92b43d5734f53e3362d431b4ba27b3f91c0a4b89ddd2937cc698d94e0e6f967
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD33D 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f7.bin
1bf83871c8e00f4f756c4b50915a109de9aa5562fa386c906e75bb9f4151748b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F7 11080 bytes