Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4c86527fa8b1399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.0 KB Created: 2020-12-11 18:51:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 09b574c0cf651c8168f592f0b1604c7f SHA-1: a1cb88971cd7cca4be316b5285178ae5543ed465 SHA-256: a4c86527fa8b13996fd65ccb3cdad7255bc66393ebb94fb70d4caa6c7bd907e3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm. One of the primary URLs, 'https://trafffi.ru/wb?keyword=participial%20adjectives%20free%20worksheet', suggests a lure related to educational content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links point towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9854

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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/wb?keyword=participial%20adjectives%20free%20worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://zabuxowinuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874463/roboraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wekegakusujesal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266445/wofeluxumuzopen.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/fasotajedag/pg-8x_free_vst.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc3205912facd59cebb7138/t/5fc4a0fff3de5e49b5f81d22/1606721792405/85681730188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f1539ad-7fe8-47ec-b84d-5f8bcae82488/petolimikado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0f88bd26ff1194f740ef3/t/5fc9f47a2e4d7f67ca2ee8f1/1607070844318/72916140103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce1931dc-adfc-432a-b434-cf04ebd86efa/kavexikemukaputamife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9de20cc0-e06a-4d26-8818-65e904c7ad8f/99907337691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40c96324-f080-4b83-949a-2c0cec6119bc/domilusuvokusurowajoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f09c9287-12b4-4231-b5e9-9042c96e18cc/lodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b8e44e7-e03b-440a-b66a-1c912c8f8572/28904163148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bidurudilidujug/tibowivaxetezirofuvuzixod.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_off0000ba6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA6E 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 69118a4459d44535786b14e079443ca499b2acf92b8ae6d2699a34679ba7e8d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD58 10172 bytes
SHA-256: eabe810a49b0c696710719fe8dade74c9212807cb8f6490f08df24a0380a85dd