Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aabb0856b3f97329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.5 KB Created: 2020-12-01 03:08:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 66e72c27d4aae43a4d778c7a9832789f SHA-1: dd52cb85976c265db2c33ff9624f9821831a6e0c SHA-256: aabb0856b3f9732943cde384354bfcc8f49dfa9fa391500868d44249032786d7
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm designed to redirect users. The document contains numerous external links, including one pointing to 'https://traffking.ru/aws?utm_term=html+css+website+layout+templates', suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a 'LOLBin token sequence' further indicates potential malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://traffking.ru/aws?utm_term=html+css+website+layout+templates PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499283/normal_5fb36cd585667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nufivoba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017608/sakajoveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawasolasazilem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379174/d1ee3c84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373986/normal_5f90a20060c98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perokizeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764435/43105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munuteme.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134862418/6ca4d0a0a91c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zumegarilafexiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096691/74cedbf55486c83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamigewome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631685/rinivogobi_fubaxevefuwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamigewome.weebly.com/uploadIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sugowubuf/alt_balaji_app_latest_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbf4dbfeaf37e3b64923071/1606372800298/unblocked_mario_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mafavuzenoliki/butane_curling_iron_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbcf62c64a3cc4058a3f39d/1606219311537/tojurakukopubelusofore.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_off0001f251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F251 5276 bytes
SHA-256: f8b826e5d68c3cadb29ad452ba8a174f3bc052d950fd76af5cea16042a39094e
font_01_sfnt_off00020449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20449 10764 bytes
SHA-256: a5b30bfb60337df351ca8c50276dcfc338f6f7a0088b8a845793f94eb462818e