Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae69d34ae8eae579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2020-12-15 20:47:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0c236fe56cfd96f19312ec9bdf7fd21f SHA-1: ae4952b0a3dd5709a5b7a2f8eb793bdaba841eab SHA-256: ae69d34ae8eae5797ea3cdb31373407089b51e098442421593d8b63facb59999
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services like Weebly. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that at least one of these links directs to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/123?utm_term=dutch+colonial+exterior In PDF document text
    • https://pudorexejuvaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455832/7844826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezitazosebizag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134700096/xutef_dikak_kobinakafowumi_tivaguxulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomudada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134382041/duwigow-dovigomos-wosij-poleka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vexakoloninabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134851928/xotilepokoxokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimaxafazeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/zakeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poraduke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134385775/5f34ebe899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405639/normal_5fa50d6d75631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakuvajavabese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383602/sepulizebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tesegedoveveda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134891870/7593157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaturelola.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134704713/gejuwolinimitim.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/rovikibixu/research_report_discussion_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/suxiweke/operatoria_dental_barrancos_5ta_edicion_gratis.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_off0000c85b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC85B 4776 bytes
SHA-256: 6c01bdb1eea3b085d3176b9577fc7826b8b5de3af6e0fee5d742305b324583d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89E 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 777b54fb29c4bc89a6fcc17eb271fcfcd5132fba306bf14bf9a57cbe2bf225b8