Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3c8a88f4aeef6d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2021-01-26 16:51:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 93906e2256e8285500b626f51cf2d6a5 SHA-1: d055d802d161901b03c4bc8fead8d48a930722d1 SHA-256: b3c8a88f4aeef6d8af220df93c8d58c89ab23ef93739d19c2360773bbb5f2d8d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm or SEO spam, containing a large number of external links to other PDF documents. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to distribute further malware or engage in phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8630

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffi.ru/aws?utm_term=alchemy+wow+vanilla+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sixepatexup/fuSLvhg/27258718226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pufowuvikij/hi8Lhev/zombie_killer_shotgun_rounds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lewuravasu/FSjfigA/hit_the_roof_speed_gang_traduction_francais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402712/normal_5fda17892fa32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerorenoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135390996/6769677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4409628/normal_5fefbf14245d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jolodovi/Khc3ih8/8809337205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464863/normal_5fd2559e23844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366321/normal_5fe0eec56f933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416140/normal_5fccaaa651fdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fudamozomeb/iigimRY/story_saver_wa_untuk_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zirixegip/eNieKjg/46890962376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pabelewexo/e9r9Zij/kanakepapadeniwofifugiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gupimupiset/K3T0nie/7789387137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/diwewiduvaz/hdEzMXD/14398499370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/surixirulol/NTHgf8C/guide_for_lifeafter_survivors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuritukupus/thbjh1m/26291247040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE358 5324 bytes
SHA-256: b89ffbbd2effa85808684d9cc7b039d79dd85692623e970da27d40882b78aeab