Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6273ed33e2b98a28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-01-01 12:00:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 042cc9bc78671433236ab37fbd939416 SHA-1: 7667ad8869967961306a47e68449fe74e73f73af SHA-256: 6273ed33e2b98a28d5e5f791f49a29db02bac12da185f66b2800d494b1bb08e4
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and at least one redirector, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a link farm attack pattern, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or exploit kits.

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.
  • 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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=body+in+white+lake In PDF document text
    • https://nakafafokebupop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437029/kolovotejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxidadawod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379698/428e455c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuvonuzomuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134508102/xinulib_zebiseguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terarawuterojuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739827/vizopanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilukenuxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814007/lovovukibejuvomuzagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mazogerivajusem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134341978/wotutonaba-xokuxetupoliko-rasogesori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/perigupa/Kqjdhfy/dressy_cheap_womens_clothes_online_shopping_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikegebuner.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134856814/46b6434.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/sugaguxagu/boarding_pass_air_asia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wibadinavosunom/sales_analysis_report_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zurovajij/human_evolution_chart_pictures.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_off0000eae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE5 4944 bytes
SHA-256: 896b8b757f57400ee004bd3f5ba3f13dfac6d99f4d8e757c6024e61855fa508c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCF 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 9de183a6168fcc72d992992bb97b0f0e2857b34eb95355dd6da0469eef85f0b6