Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb19a293fc68c811…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2020-12-14 17:47:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: aa298c27ac75caddf5cb527d9383ebd5 SHA-1: 17c95cf8919171756dd1a51a9bc40b7db23eb9d4 SHA-256: bb19a293fc68c8116646f65400f4ff96a0de3da0ce0859983e7b12c86967fdc2
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain metadata related to the embedded links, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://cctraff.ru/strik?utm_term=v+star+1100+fork+oil+capacity In PDF document text
    • https://gozofuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874065/3f295ca1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451551/normal_5fc9997ad5b65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369503/normal_5f9814e88c339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vagonegasix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/bizivinikidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vumorusumanipav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234742/sadopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susakatevasek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134871092/2998685.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/widuxade/fuzijidimomowunokuladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wizedumi/fizujalijejamobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbd2880e31f6e49ce0620d2/1606232194863/jenexebolikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tanapilamaxi/8298788925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc56483e2fce462bca9f74e/t/5fcaf214551bdc47e79f27d7/1607135765104/41885338816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc5bca9239b072291525c9a/t/5fc9ff0581b71b40859ad544/1607073541586/walking_dead_season_9_zombies_evolve.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_off0000eb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB85 5332 bytes
SHA-256: ec9145f170fb9e236fd236450b5f50124af6e7c1fe57ea8443f825171e4587ae
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCD 11680 bytes
SHA-256: 22a6df6c42e81168595847486b0ef9b24c76e5ddde8892603dcf27a6951b213e