Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8522338147e37402…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.5 KB Created: 2020-11-24 02:55:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: eab415fb28034e8626ef8ecbbe21ab97 SHA-1: c693a004197999d8ed01d6e01628c84119f20a36 SHA-256: 8522338147e37402083b70cdfb0a39e246a5d0efc5638de91989585b6a82b3ca
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and redirectors, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and the presence of URLs like 'traffking.ru' strongly suggest redirection to malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence, aligning with the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'chemical equations worksheet ks3', likely a lure.

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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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/aws?utm_term=chemical+equations+worksheet+ks3 In PDF document text
    • https://gejatovuri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406669/piveso-telurim-sumexapevagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371787/normal_5f95e312c3925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekekupoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134513515/limotivamava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabexowubomisuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407155/6730531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gokopawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493337/b94e1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://labisafedowep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134722654/mawog-vofigelidefawi-wimavegim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowameneritela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775755/vigala_kasixibexeg_nipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b2130ea-565f-4574-81d7-ccbee79a153d/ramudeneleperizotalobibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1f76ca2-0b06-401f-bab4-2f43fb45a9ca/52036701354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c908cd3e-fd27-48a3-8adb-57da58d6690c/biology_chapter_12_section_1_assessment_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1735e333-2276-4228-9e64-93999f9ff38e/baxenubalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/447b4cfa-3401-47e0-bbf0-1ac761ede871/71464672439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosasugokod/ams_2020_meeting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20eb308c-eb7e-45fd-a2a1-8e43a0d6da49/judge_judy_download_episode.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD2F 5392 bytes
SHA-256: ad0318afba051e33808775a4f58eed876dfc971eac893d161c6d085ba3b55c45
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF63 1552 bytes
SHA-256: 1a7f5f78b70f87c8c445655e3203414d5b72576ee703b7266533f1cd7478b213
font_02_sfnt_off0000d767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD767 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 54eba8a5f55cb2ef347c219e024dc779b5952a0766ff9d98ccc6631e659ddbf2