Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bb180b4f0bfd554…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2020-12-08 01:39:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2bc1ec25c3f1f688cec9e5aba1affacb SHA-1: 1641344aeffea85c55052c03dc7f7270f650c200 SHA-256: 8bb180b4f0bfd5549c7d69cd7c9860c0a83122c88a101aa665b111fe73a293b3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The primary URL, 'https://trafficel.ru/strik?utm_term=kenmore+elite+front+load+washer+repair+manual', is presented in a context that mimics a repair manual, likely to deceive users into clicking through to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or content manipulation campaign.

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://trafficel.ru/strik?utm_term=kenmore+elite+front+load+washer+repair+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385847/normal_5f8fe5d69b9a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417818/normal_5fa877f79c3d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopogaxewose.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134013169/4441593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fikamuvereza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134754658/duzit_jimesepujam_kepoligabikojus_fitifize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415748/normal_5f9a8ee4d887f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fufajogaxofamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627879/netulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazapadikud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871762/efea5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368468/normal_5fbd8306b0f8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403948/normal_5f934f77e49ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jefapijuwenumik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134435530/2c80ecbaf6.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/69806fdb-fbca-4e26-b340-91a067c0654a/informative_speech_about_a_person.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/191ceb92-bc7e-4b48-8349-bdcaa122c8f0/amelies_carmel_commons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e9eb5fd-8318-445b-8d27-a1b96dfbc7ff/mufuselifidiripexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44c2952f-ef88-4c35-ad73-0850921411df/salario_de_alexandre_fetter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5afbb20-1158-41e4-b453-228ce36eec49/cigar_size_chart_poster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/limewub/fundamentals_of_biochemistry_for_medical_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vunizi/knight_frank_commercial_real_estate_report.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_off0000da2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2D 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 95da555c4a295d63c596afb565edba8a597729d98450b165ea786e043f096d4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC46 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 3db4a3c359085adf13021cd2046885bd4ec2f0bebbfa62afdf8c14145ca15fa0