Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6da0ae6dd7333875…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2020-12-28 10:23:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 503c1e8e3b625ae5e92117c01d32de00 SHA-1: e9cba36ba8419bcfc225deb1eba7234da653f846 SHA-256: 6da0ae6dd73338754dab70e8dfabc761013a6003ca227a0f5d2ba52750c27c92
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'download' button lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score further indicate malicious intent. The primary URL, 'https://traffnew.ru/strik?utm_term=why+won%2527+t+my+disney+plus+movies+download', is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://traffnew.ru/strik?utm_term=why+won%2527+t+my+disney+plus+movies+download PDF link annotation
    • https://foroziroxodom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647192/sosatuluzaf_fakukobilepok_makawe_xozadubajoseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabuxezalexafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814122/wukunuvoboniw_kutuzelenepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xofiguguja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710561/5848244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wirujurumugi/jgdMUHb/nasal_cavity_definition_anatomy_and_physiology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wesotapaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134488604/2023080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokubopupabilu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134691430/8358026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rovumixonisi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012407/mifaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374372/normal_5faa7f813dc7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403273/normal_5fa2fd0e9e2b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bugajikiwolano.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471946/e62db97f5.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/zewimu/cymatics_titan_free.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_off0000dd23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD23 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 30408772b999fc4ff2d53a92be21ace6f4f321132e95528bb0730e443c05e50f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF89 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 21d39c9b6ad572c4a7b582d56571e58b1c8c3d76ce63308478bacaa47de71ba3