Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce61f5ce0dcb670e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-01-13 08:06:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: ce5aefd38fe216663bcb62d517f97f3f SHA-1: deb52842f3aeedf04c66d1c6ba8de0a5be88efbc SHA-256: ce61f5ce0dcb670e3d2ec91c588c19bca82ef436fe89b13824354ad526915435
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to nutritional information, likely to disguise the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?utm_term=almond+milk+vanilla+nutrition+information In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/potasuregoz/hhicDKU/gubesawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebijanuwirat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134042853/juzavulono_tevepewadepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4492250/normal_5ffbc4da3fc96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://votoliju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453024/redetezugawoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wowavimisaken.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814021/movemujatajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375195/normal_5fa8acdc5da44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufozovujibozom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134360308/4303043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446645/normal_5fa7042d4ad6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lojijuzirikoza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593465/0f8cd0a9884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiferogupinuwa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135306016/6093248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xesozugis/zgchaRD/easy_language_translator_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485329/normal_5ff13078435eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujajikozodes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384638/10fe2ead0b53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wafulezejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748518/1157688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raxorevowipafe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134765671/8a353c027b349.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://s3.amazonaws.com/wesezuzuvalirik/witching_gown_pathfinder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mexavofezoxi/wibaru.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_off0000c169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC169 4752 bytes
SHA-256: 4305be30ae6a07c30e6f6f07fe6ecec2b24505934a26d4b9bd086e135a54b252
font_01_sfnt_off0000d16f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16F 11128 bytes
SHA-256: f825087149fd76bed7b0da25fa2dc0bcd0f31db5a6baafce3d3e7425d6b4954b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF701 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361