Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59944d74d97f65b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-11-18 18:59:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4179749e07339a8d20edfca2da1fd99a SHA-1: 0610c4bf2813d73f88c696b66a9a9fb9fd846cab SHA-256: 59944d74d97f65b993e6c7080e23b9a5c92a7e0ea926fdb8d1720eeaf1030a65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, identified as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', suggesting a phishing or spamming operation. The primary IOC is the external URL https://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=firehouse+subs+turkey+creek, which is likely the initial lure or destination for the link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=firehouse+subs+turkey+creek
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370989/normal_5f9235f63385e.pdf
    • https://lulitetuxopibol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164377/fexage.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4502246/normal_5fae3f70d3fff.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500667/normal_5faf888339b60.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372080/normal_5f9b857dab9c1.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365567/normal_5f874ba83200c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368250/normal_5fab9c6e66179.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408009/normal_5fa01fad8be19.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423728/normal_5fb5409bb23dc.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369788/normal_5f9ecb46427b4.pdf
    • https://gapixupat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637313/2237816.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366027/normal_5f89438f974d1.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd3a6d22-0476-4986-bd8b-51cf371c999c/rachel_carson_primavera_silenciosa_p.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/93cd16e3-3cb8-4f62-bbcf-ca54f1ab3781/chin_no_ma_kia_tp_6.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_off0000cb2f.bin
fbac25b1899f3220ce57825cbb4e30c9e6d53ad31f35e12815ae66a437df29f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB2F 4904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbeb.bin
34bfb7ad0be8aa38e9de61564bc9e69974512406f1ec9c206e304dc0bbea95f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEB 11536 bytes