Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 994974ea286b7a9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-01-07 23:40:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1e9e73ec7ababcdd5f3c205e4f90070f SHA-1: ba7b10320fd6827307bb100c64c2cd91266cd176 SHA-256: 994974ea286b7a9b8ef44b2e4b8a98e5fe81066cba5a5fb88be5b00c4e0f5471
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'traffking.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many of which are likely part of a SEO spam campaign. The presence of a 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic suggests a lure to trick users into clicking on these malicious links, which is further supported by the ML classifier's high confidence score and ClamAV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=clash+royale+hile+apk+android+oyun+club In PDF document text
    • https://degujipimisa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453395/6084972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sirazisiluz/REs0ADa/dominos_delivery_jobs_london.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/moviferu/Sif2gjJ/koxaduvabuwuvamaferud.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/c4cd9ba4-3472-49d3-8e52-2771bb2cdd96/siwipugetimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/008fe259-7018-4c19-b0a1-2160e5a16367/xuguzume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1270ba16-c4a9-4ff3-a168-99bebde214a9/jevizigoxemivuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/peveziwoguxuzam/brevet_pro_2019_maths.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fikuvine/kabosufegidoteruwevoseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/limepusotanal/39780856418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dejolavubukugeb/abbreviation_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tapexiw/giant_lenny_face.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d1440e2-abe8-4948-baaa-3fc29bbe2644/xetokewevimagumapiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc0bed42-f24e-493c-943c-0c60a6c45835/addons_for_minecraft_bedrock_ps4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bd7ddbb-b525-48c1-a12a-7e69cbfbe03b/servios_de_internet_banda_larga.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE81 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4760ca295192c89086870ebbac49c5a5945404ea6ab57fca452cf2db5f569a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE75 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 811baff2a7e3e91e91a4e3300edd851a0902e5d77180e59029899e3f5863c406
font_02_sfnt_off000100ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AB 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 00d696d4666f2548c45b5f3515eacfc74d8d64c725822893d7bff9a80c4639e7
font_03_sfnt_off0001231d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231D 16284 bytes
SHA-256: d35ddc6d2707e2460bd6bc3b87c3caeef0a7049dcfffb5ec8cb8324c60fb067f