Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ef9b70832565715…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2020-12-27 07:43:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e5b1dd82cee62e891ddd5ddb1d91ef40 SHA-1: 7890834a21bd0de71411918200a6ed1d59606601 SHA-256: 9ef9b708325657158f4b43af0d83a5304da76f922741dd88ec64cfacf1b5d2a1
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirectors. The primary malicious link, 'https://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=burnout+paradise+pc+games+free', suggests a lure for free game downloads, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a deliberate attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=burnout+paradise+pc+games+free In PDF document text
    • https://tinutenuku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134664278/vasowobo-zifobuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goresizusozal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134524816/bufakum-fejed-lovixor-samidemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kupugaxome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969415/wuxifabasogamorodugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gixisisopovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713576/wakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wafulezejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748518/rubovinodorep_jodujituwibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuguzozivef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739994/pubamopuxelo_lomazuj_mexoliworigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivakoxidedopa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776298/61dc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387702/normal_5fa1beeeec3d1.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/pisedij/orion_chiller.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6240054a-a728-414d-928f-f236942a76c4/drakorindo_the_whirlwind_girl_2.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e24c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24C 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 300c89a0db12b11d84d9c9a7aa44e4216e37c84307e11357ff679a50b20b55f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EB 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3549eaf60dc1a2d971f56cc64f56e694835aa44ed9b6cd4b86f2a91f4dd056