Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c846da7ae4e4b8bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2020-12-21 03:56:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a863cdefa08c6fd35320885c03137d7f SHA-1: d16fcd70facf5d2dbe3381b879effcc654cb1b17 SHA-256: c846da7ae4e4b8bb5da9f60b154294c4a8fd22759a106c2c2b2fb038182b2776
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a phishing lure for a browser extension. The embedded URL `https://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=flipshope+chrome+extension+app` supports this social engineering pretext. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the lure suggest potential exploitation for client execution, possibly involving embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=flipshope+chrome+extension+app
    • https://tibesegekor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134495245/05558f1c3c5af.pdf
    • https://sumijiluwovoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266387/6607701.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/efe67823-fac9-42f2-a2d1-3668a71f9b86/bugufetubegasolak.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fewunadupop/nesizuz.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbd00ae29c5e26690265b1a/1606222000006/poems_about_nature_for_middle_school.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jaloto/ramadan_calendar_2018_dubai.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muxegeza/rirolazekexupaluzul.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/baxunaf/jazz_funk_dance_moves.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lonozote/digimon_world_4_cheats_pc.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/laradusa/upsc_books_in_marathi_free_download.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc10b16085bf90c0efde155/t/5fcc1e3883d2ac65cc028d65/1607212601118/91442146168.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc10b9cab79f442f22a6952/t/5fc1cb6d3485235c86091b02/1606536045829/sentence_and_paragraph_structure_worksheets.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdfcbce76a868683c6625e5/t/5fdfed7f892c8943b0d16e76/1608510847942/queen_platform_bed_with_4_drawers.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc299eea879396864131e05/t/5fc54284a97599144ea54efc/1606763141679/smoked_salmon_skin_for_dogs.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wenobagupexekap/sirupurej.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c41d31ee-0ced-4b27-92a9-d97931e3321b/ge_refrigerator_technical_service_manual.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_off0000d19b.bin
8720e0b0e5ca772e753b84935e7519e07ac19d4ca0e5d3c4f384e5bae1ae7cd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD19B 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e257.bin
2eccdbf3ddbdac86b686de8a27837ec5ad1933eda5b06b1d1af042426ea8fbbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE257 9696 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001037c.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037C 4324 bytes