Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 607d594fec5e9127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-12-19 18:01:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0ee591bed9023b3193295782f6d0669e SHA-1: c1453b86ac88494abb74feb763863d0cba014465 SHA-256: 607d594fec5e91275d474f4a6898ece037b8ac33973ba72082536b7d90d9d6a7
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as malicious, including a redirector link and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDFs, with at least one URL leading to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of redirectors and link farms suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious sites.

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://gettraff.ru/aws?utm_term=pure+data+drum+machine In PDF document text
    • https://sobopagugakevul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881985/faledavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mominebokax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134899741/de65fb5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifezubolafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134715310/2100535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momigetufi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876151/dudivaz_riwodetek_rirugibibo.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/af322b82-fe72-478d-8711-c5c717c4e648/an_elegant_defense_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b3db37d-98d5-44d3-8332-5e6a1273ccb1/65138842569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4149d100-394c-4bc6-9abd-51deb4f0263b/59355941529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc68dcde9fc3622d549048f/t/5fce6f1dbae22f0466a7d3c8/1607364381927/64392272062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3eba6d70-4b28-4afa-b60e-674821c4518e/duromax_generator_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8b1f892-5936-4a2b-9a1d-d199b2728c23/30760553247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rekorewexidiwo/unearthed_arcana_d_d_3._5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zufaxepixiguxax/50348416330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1476c73e-5b6c-4833-a341-a3ad7cc8d66a/tannoy_speaker_review.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_off0000cf6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF6B 4972 bytes
SHA-256: da7bfed604bd3f80c6573ae5e000982c272a3be997786a3013b564df506b0714
font_01_sfnt_off0000e026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE026 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 64e99ed6d3fe80be4991a6d75c163b662c23a94463b8980cf0f39b435184300f