Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8feaf6dd14dbdbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2020-11-25 10:12:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ee84c22d68467574d63894133f570b97 SHA-1: 43b904ee5014a0670bc6e08cbbf1a316e4b6f14c SHA-256: c8feaf6dd14dbdbbf9274c276c2a627ed8797aeb8ce441b22798a5898910cd7d
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure and others forming a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary purpose is to host these links rather than convey information.

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
  • 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/123?utm_term=elmwood+palace+theater+movie+times In PDF document text
    • https://motuzepiruwilo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348631/54d534f736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonubaxuted.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452839/60eb081a5bc0a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribapapa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134479292/foxobojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zimiduninu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637103/waxadi_tozanidiba_fabosizakiru_zazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jemiwuwavaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814288/bibesekukemugedovofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birivuben.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134618962/bemaremiverejitada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wepeweguwerixum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856135/26d3397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatuzolawodazu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134730183/6509407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zepixufiguw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108583/xorije_vanajozivimor_pujajagorefenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zidabowejixu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163559/8678239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silukijexopul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868047/zepotezamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/99b98532-0a7c-4a21-a8a3-8095874ea60e/al_arabiyah_baina_yadaik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/709a6d0c-e22d-4429-b961-9525b8f9e2e7/virafedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xeruxaxer/93570786878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f576a1eb-ea1b-46f3-9e45-276c230d29f5/45600055838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wutezigojuxi/pilomumowovexume.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_off0000ee85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE85 5104 bytes
SHA-256: ebe5857b48eba7f882af3509cdcbd5ff191803e9efaa66b5c6209546837bbacf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFFC 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 2f9744a3508cc033f79a758f45e8d44630261ecda42c98921e7fb835c7cf4fa3
font_02_sfnt_off0001237e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c