Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf0629e28fcfdda0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2020-11-21 23:40:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b3cbeea85f0f99975d62be3ba5dd6c1 SHA-1: 1de072c073d82252a2ab0ca835f044ff01d8b7a3 SHA-256: bf0629e28fcfdda0b43d0bbbf68db0cfb2bb67cd40fac3e2198a0e99b5deaccd
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to a URL that appears to be a lure for downloading a book series. The presence of numerous external PDF links further suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URL and the nature of the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • 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
  • 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=crank+book+series+free+download
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455672/normal_5fad294f99858.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379718/normal_5f9beac0e66f0.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366362/normal_5f8ef095bda3f.pdf
    • https://liwujozixo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134497145/pusudekonu-xofawaradomela-xarejul.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369166/normal_5fa7dde73dc78.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372399/normal_5f8a6aa0ce038.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387924/normal_5f9c3a26c2a97.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rujabepifar/wabapoviw.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zufojadibi/xopojasuvaxigu.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jagux/godutewolixafibowono.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gofiguj/22755527010.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd88.bin
a28fcc4ba65d8171a55e8b87d646ac5d1dd213f66ab2b0026fd39e5ca5d32d1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD88 2900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ca.bin
caaa11c80708b209d6ee77eae7e3fe815d15852ca111dab197bc07abe602a38a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CA 5104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f93f.bin
395ae47aeb8fa0b613a85143a9ec0d2f0783d7c8b901076f78c7cda5dbb56760
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93F 10756 bytes