Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9adaebf372b4e498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2020-12-20 08:11:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: edcac4f80ee3b468b644f8da13bddc2d SHA-1: 1d7f7e788377259b288d4749e686df5fa4aed0d6 SHA-256: 9adaebf372b4e498a632bbd559f2a78d0a5ead89a357db38263c2179eeb73ef0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'bluetooth module price in sri lanka'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://trafffi.ru/strik?utm_term=hc-06+bluetooth+module+price+in+sri+lanka PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369671/normal_5fb70b9c4e91c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudafenerow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134900552/8133178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370073/normal_5fb81fa365035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410191/normal_5fd18a57c45f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389820/normal_5fdae272657c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimesozarabef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/7072365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zekenegelu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390475/miseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedenuxukufokar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522900/rozubov-wuwonu-pemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jinajifija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889339/wajujejaverev_wajokanuzifirif_xobuguzadifezol_gajemuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winomumamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070375/9136578.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/5bd3be53-14ef-4112-a0ac-5268b75568a2/livafedad.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
    • http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/In PDF document text
    • http://sinhala.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/sinhala/sinhala/fonts/CREDITSIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b80c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB80C 5808 bytes
SHA-256: b22a007f3fc74e6680c005ac34f80878b6869e95fbf068f330e6f89340b32bd6
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB57 23340 bytes
SHA-256: 35c636438e224fb287d76e88cc3aae9ab95bdfdc7da20c4af52569e79f408d0a
font_02_sfnt_off00010429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10429 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 69600bd1dfe643657a9061f49705080f26763f40258aa29353cffe4f697e32c6