Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a3bbef6e51e109b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2020-12-27 07:49:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: e15f9caf01c7042d0aee1faf40f08e96 SHA-1: 9cdc81c86111f69e8b6281bbd1cadaacd14788e0 SHA-256: 5a3bbef6e51e109b0056cf10259a2c12b26eecf58d3ac9e278b4c35457faeae7
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to known malicious redirectors and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 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.
  • 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://gettraff.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+color+pretty+princess+tiana In PDF document text
    • https://vekerarefatada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868636/986877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489981/normal_5fc09418b1787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kezixowog/ibmhegc/run_ninja_run_3_game_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391649/normal_5f950f8c499e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melubezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311229/faxipidunetu_xupijipudel_kekinobuwovilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajupumivut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108914/wabipozexa-japamug-zupus-wetitefemumuzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vufupobuzalezu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853030/losawaf-wepexatukoja-gewepalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369162/normal_5f95d624194bb.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/henghuili-files2/bncc_na_educao_infantil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudefem/77266015913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luxaduzimase/assault_android_cactus_best_character.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1fcf5d9c-2fe1-401c-bb19-ee487f5ce799/pokukareso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/falufusu/free_powerpoint_templates_for_technology_presentations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fikuvine/mixiganoval.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_off0000d606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD606 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 1610671614109d93e2e9641cdf15b528e01d57f35b81aada6a756cfca900eafa
font_01_sfnt_off0000e776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE776 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 10b47d8298cf917ceb6c6691c178f96357a9ff540c14584eb4dc9fc355d6a7f2

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