Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60dcee4226c8623c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2020-12-16 06:10:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: b86c8f3552496043175b13616a1ae9fe SHA-1: e0f9b323e0986816160ce6c19a885677a566793e SHA-256: 60dcee4226c8623c2e9acb8ac37e611f7c17d661e4a086939164cc23fcee6d5d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic flagging it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK'. One prominent URL, 'https://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=trends+in+the+periodic+table+quiz+answers', is identified as a redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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
  • 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.
  • 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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=trends+in+the+periodic+table+quiz+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387427/normal_5fc927df89aab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_5f872f1b3bcd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xezuzevujuniz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586082/dumipiw_gujedexovetox_jubamupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitokulizawefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134684274/masezutotuvo_zewevopemasubep_kinikexolupox_pawevefexafoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481676/normal_5fc522296832d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jotizifime/55818798389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f260f4b-5b24-47e1-a6bc-82744713f732/98322521898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kifutizijebuj/baptist_history_and_distinctives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0d2f2d26ff1194f734ddd/t/5fca896f944ec9462b3fa226/1607108976099/petarakopimapovawomemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/66067818-a7b4-4054-9cd9-66019f613026/java_string_to_byte_array.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gadumagabusodel/windows_10_dos_commands_list_drives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sewamos/66332375593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/setigafat/pebexedezarunuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/litunux/dekakixarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juliziwojatige/double_kick_pedal_cheap.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CF 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 774183f6047dc3c73ee24635c110d54ab1c69705e83b5bc68438fb0fae4de306
font_01_sfnt_off0000e32a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32A 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 9f2946e1f116daac86aa7d74cba058d21a4565f169e78f00da7f3535828343ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001063a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2