Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c41af85187d7de4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2021-01-11 15:52:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5b741db976cbec7412486c75aa13fb7e SHA-1: ac498a681e0809614cdde62c868f9121c5e538e8 SHA-256: c41af85187d7de4ead2b97c7095c2832f0094ea6355a0676d6ca457c081da735
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm designed to direct users to external websites. The document contains numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can embed JavaScript, which is often used to facilitate such redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7268

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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafftec.ru/wb?keyword=strikemaster%20ice%20auger%20carburetor PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386330/normal_5f8cbc71edc35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pawuxadatunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266652/9a97d973ca0839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxesusonixuna.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135298742/detaxoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365567/normal_5f87096ef29b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4412183/normal_5fcaef6c35fc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mufalugibesenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453255/pejamaxowuwefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beluloxepivizor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131295/cb320c0f9c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotutokope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315373/tokabo_makiveges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sazefowefojewen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134893887/e938dd67d.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/febopa/vevadapokuwubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/makumapikeze/livebavusafejarelelebopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC335 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 67aebb6fdc407e7197adbee1cf06948a90bd29fda9b78b9c6ff958fa409cde2b