Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 886a9bcaca077dbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-11-18 21:42:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: fc8829f5268abbd9d3346edf9b3d50ca SHA-1: 339d2382b5618da985d0a5027e9840d2b53bcbfc SHA-256: 886a9bcaca077dbc044f854c69ceb546ce05e75073585902c9882683331665c9
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and are likely part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. Several heuristics indicate the presence of malicious redirectors and phishing-related content, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/123?utm_term=polar+bear+costume In PDF document text
    • https://pidadilux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134666204/kasibe-mibotuwesetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuguzopagar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134490213/josuwetivirazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365998/normal_5f9c0d6e434a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voteriboxovoviv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134352377/6244441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zavigajigufuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637719/449a070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pusazaninad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134358808/pijukudopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418764/normal_5fa3992ad9488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fifitedogij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134747960/tovowavukixut-lugakawedudozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pekedilude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134324883/nuwowiwisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xepebujusu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319702/jejele.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/henghuili-files/32018355971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20a12a0a-e670-4c4d-be6a-f1ca746e2237/jobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4b5fea9-698d-4b22-aac9-e993cdfabfda/nubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a8af6a6-63da-4a20-aa78-a44a77def285/pitabojanizi.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_off0000cd7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD7E 5084 bytes
SHA-256: c507843ee74d721a34cfc237ebbf55d7248e4308b130377cfdfd5a2d4a5b2455
font_01_sfnt_off0000deb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB2 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 868fe8a7cf981dc1904a980bff60c2de2b49f361bf86fc03902fcee568b1e4ab