Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c164db9ab0c489fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2020-11-18 00:24:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ed941c44e123bc56f459eb1c9c83feee SHA-1: e8bc5807991128509487ef6288e652d080950e52 SHA-256: c164db9ab0c489fd9c611688559686f6c98934467f2c79c1c55c82d0c1bb89c5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to what appears to be an SEO link farm designed to redirect users. The primary redirector URL is 'https://trafffi.ru/123?utm_term=it%2527s+kind+of+a+funny+story+book', which likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffi.ru/123?utm_term=it%2527s+kind+of+a+funny+story+book PDF link annotation
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/bewomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368759/normal_5f96ffa8140d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixipesigogod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134370637/duxitepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366661/normal_5f875e938b8ab.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/wujapu/hindi_typing_in_ms_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pizexopenaxu/luke_chapter_10_verse_29-37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/63e09427-93b7-4616-819b-aaa0bceb49a7/como_instalar_autocad_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wujapu/agile_scrum_master_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/381ba431-ff58-4292-87a1-dcfe6e8be783/fubodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b77e3d1d-908d-4820-8aef-83fb0e7ff42c/vunajikanobujajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jamokaroxoj/89518452906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f639d8f3-3ddc-4c0e-92cf-8e4f0f780d52/bapowux.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83B 7300 bytes
SHA-256: 43921b1e5d05552fe6eed977f60d05d13e6831d52df8f97239d7873ec1a6cfab
font_01_sfnt_off0000e08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08C 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 029e45759198cc7091216ff6e6b6a0c11b5a8212b1f14fd423574ecf61249448
font_02_sfnt_off0000f22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22D 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 7946fb36f9116a5556b0fa0b1f1341a9a211db6eb2cafd6c55884ac07fdf1817