Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 749f0a3b17ce90c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2020-12-28 05:46:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cac726e0cc32e6515011eff816419932 SHA-1: 7ae7b3d53a441b364b83f6ce31c742564225f282 SHA-256: 749f0a3b17ce90c928add9daa8e4f96ecc6832e4c269f4b71b7e101006b514e0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam, including language related to lotteries, prizes, and parcel delivery. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to PDF files, suggests a link farm or redirection mechanism. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate potential malicious activity, possibly involving embedded JavaScript for further exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://trafficel.ru/strik?utm_term=candlepin+bowling+in+western+massachusetts
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481839/normal_5fbaaba363b54.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4491936/normal_5fadd4a0e5d39.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422918/normal_5fa2c0ac086f3.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370264/normal_5fc5bb284278c.pdf
    • https://kugodago.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491336/7e7a39.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486971/normal_5fc00a5176b81.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383577/normal_5fe5324ac9b0f.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445118/normal_5fa287ca6e547.pdf
    • https://wonikisemuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902350/xojamifulofez-pesamexokur.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366398/normal_5fe6632fbfa42.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wozowuledij/android_go_phones_under_5000.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuguvoxoki/musivuwesewawudakufavo.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fedojigudaj/nudibotoxupuv.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012b34.bin
4e87836647d205ecef377d5ca5a60516905eb2c8e1beee63746af29b4c637129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B34 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013e33.bin
1bb498ed1fd330bbce563c6ae44ee790d5519f38cff173497320ea9e86a93060
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E33 11480 bytes