Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c374f2efff723c2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2020-12-10 12:40:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 53ebc04d304649d63b152f8031a7435c SHA-1: c7f95a50158fe9477565238cc41a52fa5aa88187 SHA-256: c374f2efff723c2a1a93a6190f3d9a44ab9bfa17a14bbbada6f40ebf306f1eae
304 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, including a redirector to 'traffine.ru' and a link farm hosted on 'weebly.com'. Heuristics indicate brand impersonation for credential phishing, specifically targeting Yahoo. The presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing campaign aimed at harvesting credentials through a series of redirects and disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://pukotegifo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874060/xumilulefiva.pdf.
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?utm_term=how+to+reply+on+4chan In PDF document text
    • https://pukotegifo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874060/xumilulefiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vowijavig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319359/zubanoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viwoseloza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861971/6617507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zatajiwivovib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134529671/kunexulukoka_xoxiz_niman_vaxogipovutafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadonajates.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134319020/1391850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xovazarorofo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457653/676af23d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xumotisububilup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134591263/dbeaf0e.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/5da6f00e-ca00-4309-8d58-95f34edba9e6/79431206057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc56866f9866f3fd2f220f8/t/5fc8f1392197e711ef7e3553/1607004473320/blocks_strategy_board_games_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5805ede1-90ef-4100-8f62-8a8be02b183c/author_biography_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc33ed640f1034a5cb81b15/t/5fc952d01a6ea1418be98b0b/1607029458476/16622452881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/75577766067.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B1 2900 bytes
SHA-256: 9c84aca5171cf4522e1fd23f3e5391e17c8e645cdcb740b4c3036af6865bd014
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF6 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 417802eba87140b3446e93276b07de6747d33bb7c2eb41b7ab1200636377448f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC58 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 3e40dd7791f8ba2c9b4678eba507fbcdf1929de0467e9721e61f6c314b24b7ce
font_03_sfnt_off0001237f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237F 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 9fce2e558c7eba93e9b4ba87b790c422cf9490aab73fe875614431ac3e7f116a