Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f9ba538e10c0522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-11-14 00:11:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc3c39c0115b809f2d1a2816eca0ccb7 SHA-1: 47ce629600d0db537c73c6e9823ec78b1222df20 SHA-256: 7f9ba538e10c0522a464054f7245098e36ee70bcbede29208b07690f06721a66
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm. One prominent URL, 'https://traffking.ru/aws?utm_term=microstrategy+attribute+form+html+tag', suggests a lure related to Microstrategy attributes. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware via the linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9386

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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/aws?utm_term=microstrategy+attribute+form+html+tag
    • https://keniwuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483234/3cb113af6.pdf
    • https://borusolu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134327960/690c1496a.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/levumoduf/1219578597.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jufowokedunod/nuzolop.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/joterige/8100275351.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jenagubadopi/words_with_esia.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/punurum/72095406215.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vexeliku/64273806915.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tobojelusiwi/direct_and_indirect_speech_worksheet_grade_6.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kovilowab/12_cube_storage_unit_ikea.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/felasorarabipis/greenworks_21142_string_trimmer.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/66fc1f29-0502-4a12-953b-e7b71101e588/bugoxadol.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gopuze/vukiludagu.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000af83.bin
06ad453401366a75ad855b17c8ed172c02fd54d7515278ebd229d933b1720299
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF83 5316 bytes