Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aea8f2f96f73809a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-11-08 03:27:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 112fe68aacb5dc35faa6adc516cb738e SHA-1: e8e03b329436566466ce65738a83c2e83ef78ea1 SHA-256: aea8f2f96f73809ae79c9f1eca4ced6b91876f8b31ea006f5cfcaa94a8da51da
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, https://traffine.ru/123?keyword=yourwellsfargomortgage.com+sign+in, which impersonates a financial institution's login page. This indicates a phishing attempt to steal user credentials. The document body and embedded URLs further support this phishing lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links is sufficient evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?keyword=yourwellsfargomortgage.com+sign+in In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386079/normal_5fa2ed4b938a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471091/normal_5fa733d1b81e3.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/lupuvogotog/garrity_flashlight_bulb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/garorowa/shot_glass_holder_for_bar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f97202a-c42b-4a10-9674-7ac01f3270ed/lizonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bikikanafopavu/62500068719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/553adf53-6ac1-4c60-97a8-a15188dac2cb/60894161735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jewizopukuni/95953195268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/825fed93-54c8-406f-9cff-5d2115e4a146/dizuxukexumawovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/regovadeje/madison_middle_school_tampa_fax_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f358f3d-64a7-46c9-b4cc-fd689d70588a/rupigoregoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rixevozajixezos/jajivubirinobumunowotazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14a0c577-c6ca-4b14-8bb6-de739271ecdb/bevoribilejugimegureme.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_off00006bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BAD 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 97361143ddb408847652605d455710c318ec95e2a1a4e55ed6bae6945918c9b8
font_01_sfnt_off00007dac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DAC 11600 bytes
SHA-256: 9b0c6b2355bf9e67c8b56541636ec8919e8edc6f4cf573db2531fb98f05e5220