Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8826e8818635f6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-01-14 11:37:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: a3240dd14dc6354bd6c39fb5cbeaee38 SHA-1: 454662d6f83a11174266b6e977b244094658f989 SHA-256: c8826e8818635f6be8865d68f05168bf7b8399532aefd49f716094cad7bb3583
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious due to its extensive use of link farms pointing to potentially malicious redirectors and disposable hosting. The embedded links, such as 'https://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=cirrose+hep%25C3%25A1tica+diagn%25C3%25B3stico+pdf', are likely intended to lead users to phishing sites or download further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=cirrose+hep%25C3%25A1tica+diagn%25C3%25B3stico+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://supenavasude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135397397/5860805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxikikigiligex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347308/memutuveroze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawenowufiwozup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383543/wigukujujonetowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivubatololux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134850937/7731958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/feluxolid/ggjjR4Z/fast_food_arkadelphia_ar_restaurants.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1177860.mozfiles.com/files/1177860/arknights_cn_tier_list_march_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenegogak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134522167/835459850baf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4448121/normal_5fca9559215bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonebofakakare.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856314/gadixavipamofoxebome.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/popisiburewixuj/buzajoza.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_off0001421f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421F 5660 bytes
SHA-256: d22a7e0ca20f8533eb33bfb08b28d7d842cf181868d35be3c9f938f3ab435fe3
font_01_sfnt_off00015488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15488 12004 bytes
SHA-256: 2876dd3db6234f3d3486d50830233ac335e2481649527a69cc5e8c4d7881a9da