Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bff34b9e94e3b57c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2020-11-11 03:18:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 87f58d7a646e5ac1a09a4c90f567229f SHA-1: 923ccdd3524405d9b55ba8e51096491a053b4410 SHA-256: bff34b9e94e3b57c104f395957c374d6bbe100c462d943b15a8350ee690b669a
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'carboxylic acid', suggesting a potential lure for SEO-based phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support a malicious classification, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?keyword=carboxylic+acid+general+formula In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379973/normal_5f9f0514da129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazatawivofudod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134313500/2446534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419192/normal_5f9f2d889a292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xabisemegebo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491474/sagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watorixaziju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586039/mazosogopubasaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/191b6358-dc5f-4c23-bc41-6bde8b9b806f/12408421118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/964e15cd-b8c0-466c-a9ae-57720e448317/garonawidorobivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dd8168f8-9fa7-4e9b-9950-f78a12249bd4/ingersoll_rand_ssr_up6_30_125_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70b13951-e488-4363-858e-ddd08de2a552/nusilada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f1345f2-2e02-427b-bde9-44351f5e5a9a/2962602648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4006652-2986-4592-a522-05c9ed28cfdc/79299076929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9cd34b70-65d5-4e02-9766-8c42322ad6e2/66968567054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d618d9e1-94de-479c-b959-275de102f9c5/53206317239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/209c5a89-8846-4f6c-8176-d8bcf6270dee/spanish_grammar_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2afc92b8-f6e3-45a1-a2b4-d62c78c11968/xizubedoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ace46777-c03e-45c4-a245-62cbc1c1d231/among_the_hidden_series_book_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06d13331-9aeb-4c9d-a2d7-5ab846b03add/kefosexez.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_off00010f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F65 5380 bytes
SHA-256: f7b1dc4a9fe7c46f5148dce72d967202143e60587e6290b14cdb9802333cd994
font_01_sfnt_off000121a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A5 11716 bytes
SHA-256: 0d55a33b2b62e5d98038ba4a505cfa45cc42c0c4d2cf78c184062d63c6bbc103