Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd98f2e0aa27d9cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.0 KB Created: 2020-11-26 01:21:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8e2ce29768604e2b3c834544ecad317e SHA-1: 1524c65c69b18cea823e2d2f94d40d8226201c30 SHA-256: cd98f2e0aa27d9cb43077590b47e3baeab7970c31232edaf3b2743095e0af376
254 Risk Score
Tags
free-cdn-ebook-manual-lure

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits malicious characteristics, including links to known redirector infrastructure and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to phish users or distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links point towards exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/123?utm_term=alfie+the+elf In PDF document text
    • https://takoxoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371043/f3528eb2b6056f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesizapilutib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266568/puvululesanuka-rojuxuki-lajivofofilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457279/normal_5fa5fd9b3cf59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoliparudoluja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134662317/punitetipute-murilaw-narubomipifa-gagijuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dopuxaponaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695391/9c8a6d23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407998/normal_5fa9c54b19747.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/fulomufimikim/68024559952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wupiwupiwot/sycamore_launchpad_links.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eac1dcda-98a1-42d4-bd95-288f727a6b0b/42597089983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kizugokofo/46200920279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00e9a64a-d61f-41b9-84c8-de8180c076a0/lonetadexumojamazemotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jumedemimo/sudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanaladu/3984242388.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8CD 4360 bytes
SHA-256: 18715b7f594651baefed02290e44717c7a9cfdd99e8d3639dfb2d59944178246
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A0 10480 bytes
SHA-256: a28590610d82cc548747a47b1d3019fad8f0fbb82a283f94b6b5211ab4a8c60b

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