Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b39d83bedded3fdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-01-03 08:45:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 29b2dbee575005906fab298b0ed37e81 SHA-1: 7a10a3059851bdeb50c458b55ccb600be541679d SHA-256: b39d83bedded3fdc72517f993b932ca379132c6b61047035698fefb111054158
272 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and flagged as malicious redirectors. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure, possibly related to 'Family Dollar corporate HR', aiming to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of multiple suspicious URLs and the critical heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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
  • 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.
  • 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) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?utm_term=family+dollar+corporate+hr In PDF document text
    • https://dofafurubes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134762343/mugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merasewutid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348660/kujixizijax_pofegixiwibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renikafajuwigag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317319/bezekutagijepi_pefewewalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vamewufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317042/puninilakitupetiwato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidojibirulon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070792/davedejobogenez_zumopilupegem_jakafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nifavoweju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739528/5667223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pufinixebajev.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873949/muvel-keduf.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/muvazi/dokiduxamobeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fonibinaraj/dakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/wards_automotive_interiors_conferences_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a148f511-a468-4bf2-83a9-9ca8a7a5fe70/pudibufazaguto.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_off0000cf0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF0C 5192 bytes
SHA-256: ce4d3ec589cd70430e0b03b01f9cca8d7e1cd4f065b18859d9067c4c2b72d30d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE097 10720 bytes
SHA-256: c784229633b97c0a344d611a4c6fb6c41776b0133aac8ff870fbf83008cf9e02