Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8abf50482af38609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2020-12-23 14:04:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: cffa498eb8704ae39a90521f09954834 SHA-1: dc772de1a45030098afedf3dbc382f15ea167d57 SHA-256: 8abf50482af386090e7cf35bfddc88620fa56d676be1b136bbdd0164293d5e00
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for movie downloads, which is a common tactic for distributing malware or leading users to phishing sites.

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
  • 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.
  • 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://trafffe.ru/strik?utm_term=mummy+returns+full+movie+in+tamil+dubbed PDF link annotation
    • https://momigetufi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876151/3101063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerofiputa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367001/2d113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486367/normal_5fac5f033b714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuwunujanopir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134617400/d70bb6c60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416490/normal_5f94ce8abdd29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373511/normal_5f8c0b9d5e193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudororurupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602833/1294441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449622/normal_5f9e7caa700a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zozufawagizawag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134454621/kobuvizufula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/4041939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368991/normal_5fd7dce68e054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fejamelaluboj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311679/gupibabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382620/normal_5fc1732321cd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vekerarefatada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868636/kutetoxiworuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zewemoledomuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746436/4764599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malinozibide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380659/kijose_falapeserepojuw_vejigibopole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rakonudiboxenej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874851/8645598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gidutuzewefira.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380066/tiragofufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419192/normal_5fd62a4f656fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn 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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC891 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 5a925071446f1434b8f8e8e403b346de11f32aae9501fe95b78632cca8c4080b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABF 10744 bytes
SHA-256: ec3da46c446ad91ba147c92793aa88ea3d059dcb0a7a221be5560df53bfd27bc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF972 12248 bytes
SHA-256: 54d3eae68b59e6be078e4f004b2c8eaa02b613aeced7973ef6bec27db2fed127