Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b298f2ddda2049a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2020-11-21 04:23:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 73f7316e145cc0083fa8ff853f8659ad SHA-1: 53b4c6f4fc545db5db420c42cac89fcff48b11d5 SHA-256: b298f2ddda2049a88c5e4754a860c88080f2531676e19e8a4bace95e2f2b7cb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. One of the primary URLs, 'https://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=grand+prairie+municipal+court+phone+number', is suspicious and likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external links suggests a lure to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=grand+prairie+municipal+court+phone+number
    • https://dunojezeb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586234/xovidudowo.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466679/normal_5fa2d989ce1d9.pdf
    • https://xopigitit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339451/2314100.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/242e6a0e-faac-4576-ac2f-7d751ce1c821/15859501307.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f761e009-d99d-4afe-a778-5f1e6516560f/domestic_violence_idaho_statistics.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ed9a845-2c11-439e-8f8d-abf56e4052e4/98639633690.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3f3c728-d976-49cd-b380-150969d49094/wamiregilojixix.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90e44d95-12f8-4f82-8720-c72dd7b1ec1f/jikifaxepawomenedidum.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c113f8ba-9ceb-407d-b421-0293f9baf949/voxosotanab.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/befarekogol/merkury_headphones_bluetooth.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b716077-21ee-4671-9d82-8084952af2b9/mismatch_2_movie_torrent_file_free_d.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/subud/boziduwuson.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0d3aa6cb-e07c-44b3-adb0-e959b564e240/codetantra_python_answers.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d727.bin
b3c878f765b38715472e811ff57d7471519959ac8969e9031107917ea227318f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD727 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e900.bin
5d83b0091a07dd234c1a2e232e7be99fce8da61f5e7a99e30303d7a10a84a689
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE900 12204 bytes