Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aab8baf361ca4545…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-12-19 08:53:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: af39fb51dcbbc8236d40c8144f9bfae8 SHA-1: 77f369cc728d0b4076e9f4110c74109850ff2ef3 SHA-256: aab8baf361ca45453fd75be50b4ea825d9bebb9d99c6b41fcd40c92104156a10
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm designed for malicious purposes. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the idea that the links are the primary malicious component.

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
  • 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/wb?keyword=birthday%20cake%20images%20for%20girl In PDF document text
    • https://marizezibafive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865590/4f559c7251ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zeraxoxuret.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134642117/3512bc1c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sawifotu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597463/tuvinolefes_vabeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juwatupajevofa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134705275/lusuwepi_rubizemilabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puzesijokivokef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134312217/rivore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372358/normal_5f8a9334112ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454670/normal_5fb8254b92cbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pusemekit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134680760/jofudewonowoke.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/d7ed65ce-ae72-4340-9d33-60ffc3172e1f/ib_to_gpa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9720e79-1066-4885-bef5-b09fc38028d2/biotechnology_crossword_puzzle_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bcea4a5c-c05c-4a11-9c69-2299d3577f78/yann_tiersen_comptine_dun_autre_t_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69a22d42-e755-4ea7-974b-2053ee2c36b8/fobekozami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b8aebfc-fd72-4d83-9b1e-d27094eb2151/86_honda_fourtrax_250_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58c66868-89e5-4004-80c6-ba5bae2165ce/munibaborel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c2535cd-13f1-4fd5-b4cb-d18053e81791/40754661495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92e821b4-ab85-4e47-8e81-42f80116a0f3/the_sea_shack_delivery.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_off0000d129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD129 5652 bytes
SHA-256: c9e39c751a9cfeecc844c32a0cb80ed5675f536d430fd9a29df61d92ab4f7272
font_01_sfnt_off0000e445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE445 9912 bytes
SHA-256: f704fcd297cf3bdc885dff6c8473ce0971cb8b868383503f5ff8f2c4659501be