Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a56bd8799fb4a449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2020-11-30 17:54:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70d97fd2a83eff019e2e45a55dbe5014 SHA-1: 11d49bf350dd7f231cbe358635197c0c8796c582 SHA-256: a56bd8799fb4a449dac65148f2218a6e5aed14edaf49f20e75463880ae41ff97
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic indicating an external URI, specifically 'https://traffnew.ru/123?utm_term=culture+of+poverty+theory+criticism'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Culture of poverty theory criticism' and authoring information suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate maliciousness, likely a phishing attempt to direct users to the identified URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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://traffnew.ru/123?utm_term=culture+of+poverty+theory+criticism
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424036/normal_5fa60cfda3755.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420612/normal_5fbcc94d7646a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462350/normal_5fa8c0b8c3751.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403557/normal_5fa39d48208be.pdf
    • https://wigemixez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265991/4799437.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390055/normal_5f9014f8d8fa5.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4482619/normal_5fad9b7d1a088.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468274/normal_5fc48c2639b94.pdf
    • https://zovavofesaduj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134770402/fbbc30b.pdf
    • https://jatilesaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134316516/xubuwaziroralu_nigazubika.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367290/normal_5f89dfe3669b6.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/660355ca-950f-4cfd-a76e-c3b59f0cb78a/11565892411.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05a62710-4053-4727-9c2b-34a0a807a26c/kozojevaxevozolejewaxazo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9bc.bin
ca9feda5c0c12d12808ab37430cb44e2ec26c9b7b8b3d33d0d87550c5b1be373
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9BC 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae5.bin
624466be93627ae936bd426336279db3f0c1b01979cc7cb946e5505739373316
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE5 11044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffd0.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD0 4324 bytes