Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9abca3f8da491f56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2020-12-26 08:37:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: b41d67f51d5eb0da6d82b885b609f219 SHA-1: d1590d70058cc259e338453963ff800f647e0e11 SHA-256: 9abca3f8da491f565cfb40e64eca3419b19afcf8f479564ec81e9bd552947f40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with one pointing to a suspicious URL ('trafftec.ru'). The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9090

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/strik?utm_term=cat+warner+famous+birthdays PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448733/normal_5fa0db5d2ba56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389106/normal_5fa540e46f069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370059/normal_5f8dda21d4042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wetejitaxazis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134306742/a716d79fcc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topizamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134435864/9550457.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/rivazixexuguri/mv_twice_fancy_dance_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lunojol/ctet_solved_question_paper_2018_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kuboki/assured_shorthold_tenancy_deposit_prescribed_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fuwenoxuzasila/48448764844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c468f437-1861-49c1-9451-7d24ed939dde/bexaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/firudegix/varokemijubezewudonam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3da747b-eaae-4a5a-b0ac-5b5ad78fc977/3783784190.pdfIn 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_off00010abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABD 5352 bytes
SHA-256: acee4b5c559d59ddfe3ff119d7c613c6bd9401d8a2db73f1e7363bba2b4c7066
font_01_sfnt_off00011cd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD8 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 94de857e414447dc55fcb4ddb84e089f2c5bc7ac125077f2be1eccfd2fd53c43