Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9587bd503eb5c8c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2020-11-19 00:48:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b0dc68af509e939bfda9ff5c64fb005b SHA-1: a7954eac03ae4752045e604e7e9750ad0658bea9 SHA-256: 9587bd503eb5c8c2b41ade06ba5858b0cf9c9fa0f72fd4f2f909581cec7aece2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a tactic of redirecting users to potentially malicious content, possibly for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=you+player+pro+apk+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://favesalaliba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384568/lopunigemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasozowi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315408/a644cdfcfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keniwuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483234/5d6f2da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://risimapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321435/walaxotaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373985/normal_5fafde589cb87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vavuxajibibugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134472661/kobagimiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xironudobavus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134461104/2706144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366973/normal_5f99d2df1bc10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadekojulaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320805/3829780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366653/normal_5f8dcb555f7c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luxelula/sixulipaxepibodozilazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wupiwupiwot/numpy_multivariate_gaussian.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFF6 4892 bytes
SHA-256: 08319328a1a1dd57f9fb0570c8b8abe65489f3a86cae910e819c3ba711034472
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BB 10192 bytes
SHA-256: f92b4d3a938f4d518f74fd833257340da183ebd90d41aa456a82f608690ce485
font_02_sfnt_off00010383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10383 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34