Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a89f3f16a2ccc3ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.1 KB Created: 2020-11-25 07:20:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 592a5af8dc298f0bf1be799f16e1b0c4 SHA-1: b560b4d72c99cdd4a39b23e675748cceca2f28e6 SHA-256: a89f3f16a2ccc3ba71fe3edbd54d095a16f2dd41c8ead798dd19c8fd87ae788b
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to suspicious domains, including a known malicious redirector. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8124

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/aws?utm_term=contracted+services+agreement+template
    • https://lagafuxomip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347440/sawagupafigiwam.pdf
    • https://jatorogerujew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710569/ruxozukozuvazu.pdf
    • https://xizirogubo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776043/8900510.pdf
    • https://xukolewijox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320036/81eaf61485b.pdf
    • https://selimubujupaso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134847774/gajusaw.pdf
    • https://wekubuzebebam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739705/wutolefosug.pdf
    • https://kuvofexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163751/godupivisevajidino.pdf
    • https://wegupufula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813429/530b9cf.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9be1400-41cc-4a4d-83fa-63d112a8b07e/11500224050.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bubisifapagefe/california_map_outline.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab216ae5-c242-415a-aec2-95bd7063a015/holt_biology_test_prep_pretest_answe.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65f0f6b5-05fe-4549-8101-28ec5c89afa8/world_cruising_routes_ebook.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2703b10-26c7-4742-8ac9-b03d8bc4195c/timubi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03352ba9-513e-4152-b7cf-53fe75e25834/84561439896.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/61001cda-1780-4a6e-bdd9-54645e9bced4/59060661838.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuxadol/zoning_code_r2_means.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d492.bin
b09b106c1c85c32b5a076486decbefa8bedef636847d4d986613906202ba53ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD492 5356 bytes