Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caa2a4740ce8378c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2020-12-31 20:52:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4227615b5a85b025610c1103154a372e SHA-1: d8c9c280d3129ce1aa932a05d25e99f61f90a3de SHA-256: caa2a4740ce8378c8973efba351791074822765f8d86bff275384d577829f87e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various platforms, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'emergency contact information' and 'account will be terminated', indicating a social engineering lure to encourage users to click the embedded links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://trafffi.ru/strik?utm_term=emergency+contact+information+form+pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jaxabofapuw/2jhnKei/sausage_dog_running.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462038/normal_5fcd7af76c41a.pdf
    • https://xotozefubineru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576546/vixinesikusutobixug.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vutexexukus/ehfBhta/redcon1_military_discount_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zazavoxujub/6jhjdSD/clash_of_legendary_titans_gold.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zifalulog/iaPUgic/ballet_barre_workout_at_home.pdf
    • https://mosejibufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134437632/duxowasimis.pdf
    • https://pagopejej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135315805/480ded75a84.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rojarasam/jjKghie/let_s_farm_hack_8._19._01.pdf
    • https://muluxebaxomoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135401331/d2f57.pdf
    • https://lufavivuda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340228/zonat.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/penale/first_day_of_school_icebreakers.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c747.bin
b5c6a5d6c62639dcf48c0f8011949ab2c8593053837ae386edb235135d3e1401
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC747 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d961.bin
b41e1a0c12a3c363eba5de5fd2fb65ee370612241ebf729f8983f89d49362f5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD961 10792 bytes