Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f0a22d21e75b498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Authoring application: Samsung Electronics
MD5: 63672c42600627b14529533173ea7bba SHA-1: df1d0775e3a8bbb589cce7cf13477d03363775f2 SHA-256: 8f0a22d21e75b4980311b759feedb88e338a777d9aba56ee85ef462482520272
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://traffmen.ru/wb?keyword=eicar%20pdf%20test%20file'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was authored by 'Samsung Electronics' and includes the malicious redirector URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.4403

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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/wb?keyword=eicar%20pdf%20test%20file
    • https://voxonevixes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134383310/3212069.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479223/normal_5fc8ecf96736d.pdf
    • https://daviwoza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134670821/rudaruzarafaw-nobokujiduv-nalegeji-regoresusa.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451565/normal_5fc4be3b76a1c.pdf
    • https://denasigetul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332190/3aadf349f71.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489441/normal_5fc8b59e7613e.pdf
    • https://vesumuzuvof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134685641/gewof.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381737/normal_5f9c867fda2cc.pdf
    • https://jatorogerujew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710569/5650151.pdf
    • https://xuzufudoroxibu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134755415/fewonuviwinulewipa.pdf
    • https://zawasofolebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902788/6a0ec8.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_5f9abc7d2f1a4.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4498392/normal_5faf04625de48.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376874/normal_5fa0c5cb1b909.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc2d06c1452f90b7ff1a516/t/5fc81fa34b97230d050097b8/1606950820137/dibowemofareg.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc59785d49dd12447543100/t/5fc892132dd5737571b7b636/1606980115485/nojexuvuvuxebowefisep.pdf

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_009_off00014b9a.bin
3e5e1498febfeb6e3195083287326c6b4dd8c1ac2571c1119fad5c40e56c8181
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x14B9A 3044 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off000009fe.bin
3e54fc804cc2165663136042aa900895c8c92ae97e43ca4fbd0eb3dc72686f59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FE 11220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00002d35.bin
1baf6c47f315a03e69f5bb748439f0edf982aac982e5c6f51a8db17b2e7034d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D35 5108 bytes