Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b1c4467c7913f0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2020-12-22 21:55:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: dc1675aee133abe51579a4738287cb37 SHA-1: 963de04fe690bc1c186a14fa7473ddfab9b479e4 SHA-256: 8b1c4467c7913f0c42d9f70058cc6ce9360295ba46fdf859e532f3050de70159
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL, https://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=bluestacks+free++for+windows+10+filehippo, is likely used to direct users to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains strings related to software downloads, suggesting a lure for users seeking specific applications.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • SEO-redirector lure link (multi-word utm_term) low PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the search-keyword gateway used by the 'free document download' phishing family. Surfaced as an IOC; on its own this is a low-confidence signal.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=bluestacks+free++for+windows+10+filehippo In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383916/normal_5fd7b2e80a942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366312/normal_5f8e9a7438de4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4470523/normal_5fdf4979c63bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425768/normal_5fbf5807ea021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454990/normal_5fa65db53ad5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417526/normal_5f9cc0d17fa7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4469143/normal_5fa5ee65c0596.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/dudurat/57275727102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugabijenovili/cape_breton_highlands_national_park_guided_hikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/didowugorokirug/55087661466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wanalovum/64507284734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitajemisajoz/acronimos_en_ingles_de_informatica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sinamozagemoger/safunalugosoxijuzupexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/536d6e3e-4fa2-49e0-ac70-e68d73ac5111/28642504999.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_off0000df74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF74 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 3de1788574dee3b11de8b66f5144ef13ddba53210cdd1bc4572728140adf9839
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C0 11444 bytes
SHA-256: a7286ee723f1dae72e18debe1983c1b2be719d859871f361c895082f13302855