Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58ec3ad1bb3cc9cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2020-12-31 21:03:27 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ad342c5657a221ac49920c50394ad7a0 SHA-1: e605d07b481d7da87e64fbacb04ba549389fb13b SHA-256: 58ec3ad1bb3cc9cf2219448b8822071714d1a2fb62bc7cdef78b587544250d22
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector and part of an SEO link farm, designed to phish users. The embedded link directs to 'traffine.ru', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'English rock music ringtone download', suggesting a lure for free content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://traffine.ru/strik?utm_term=english+rock+music+ringtone+download In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446399/normal_5fb964a5cff83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuwukozoxuwiged.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713444/439732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/duwewofowus/ighii5x/zuzafebavoruvuzuverot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dojopaxitovi/whbM2Is/xodojaniwonebovifokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedawubav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134376018/1c3755a4722253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/potasuregoz/FgjJhha/widiluxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toroborelap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134867907/8492215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towipikegogu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690187/ravewivij-vebuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zikegasenar/guhahap/cooking_master_boy_episode_13_english_subtitle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapixokevabose.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134498139/7582726.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/wemazun/muvobumedogujifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/paropabaru/lanusozolezuvasekisoloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mexijegedakol/minority_report_movie_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jevelel/fidelity_beneficiary_designation_form_ira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tawosutosuxi/tufawav.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_off0000ceb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB7 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 569108cba21b913ff9bbe79657c6fabcab4469552c426f36126fb6f53ad39bcb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE138 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9f6f29a9bd976e50b10dd18e5d17e580095f812101d94c5c9df4e3e6687c45