Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee7b73bb90ccd13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2020-11-11 22:05:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 721e58c60e382d323c8a0f7bee5ea2cb SHA-1: 142267fb6c0820d18147ab315b2b7346d4e155de SHA-256: 7ee7b73bb90ccd13344f4311f208e96ccd1adf0b1bb51286d82c463e16dba5fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm, pointing to various PDF files hosted on external services. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and extensive external linking suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://traffine.ru/aws?utm_term=english+grammar+test+app
    • https://kapomubevobi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134681937/6517021.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412584/normal_5fa33e4447bc3.pdf
    • https://rofipufexorijol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134656377/fuvoxegunujonas.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391621/normal_5f9c1792a575c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386073/normal_5f907bddc5710.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369331/normal_5fa60c5b2471d.pdf
    • https://vijipivefewari.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134624644/tonix-wegevizejazawe.pdf
    • https://pedomolakikivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134440841/sasuwufamividulu.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388046/normal_5f979679c3451.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381082/normal_5fa014ff5b9a7.pdf
    • https://papunagaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384156/bukiri_riwolipariwoje_vaxovopob_tunavojorud.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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_off0000cfd1.bin
800eda4a438fd871498444e331e359d3b6c7f97c7689c553da569a285c132439
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD1 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e152.bin
006e1a67e459cad73eb15cb6129b1a4fc5e7a6779cbefa1f66055e3286915c03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE152 11144 bytes