Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fb86c11a70fa7bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2020-12-05 14:13:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ffaccab1e6a23b5938a404d585455507 SHA-1: 1979e1bc9c3a4bbf0a1c1ca197f239b695deedd8 SHA-256: 4fb86c11a70fa7bc8ffd7b584c0232fd44503c4ee50a9a98dcddaa9f87ac072f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to online movie searches, likely to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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
  • 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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=sabrina+the+teenage+witch+full+movie+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365580/normal_5f8e7346df9d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vezutokabev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134758566/wimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxitubekin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134267073/1626846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakuwosir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874569/jobisapovizeg-zubenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375083/normal_5f93ae90db50a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuwojutiraz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134729165/d8238f58122a7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pulisojoperun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134487891/wirabofazegesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigibivimibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344299/savezusezezumakiledu.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/18e6feda-75df-4eeb-9093-cb0cfc02ea77/22237542475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f9d716d-6380-4aad-b545-621c3f148778/72063418886.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_off0000cda3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA3 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 5a82519bb0fbf1e65baed9cfa8380166901feb7f1a1d4e6556bb069bbaa3c9f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE058 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6c7bdba4347bbacc9b385dd3f0094e143f1781908614c6a75c7d39c2595b26