Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce8f9025a510ed01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-01-15 13:40:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: b765961a318b27ed9850de69475fe44a SHA-1: 38e0fc5ff5b48f676ef85450e789545ba4a72aca SHA-256: ce8f9025a510ed018e226087776a0ee075adc7310224c77cfe4e320a693337d8
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or known redirector infrastructure, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=master+slave+contract+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nobozufale.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322784/nukevixigadoxabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369336/normal_5ff8034031649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1168348.mozfiles.com/files/1168348/pamurovibedadumajiluvujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xopigitit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339451/a8aaf73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fusupolupiritox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134374508/d5d5d60e2330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1173386.mozfiles.com/files/1173386/tank_block_blast_mod_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408987/normal_5fdc4b66d86e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitigufej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135337089/ef492e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijetuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134499475/a63a159cd9a1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zesopupejilit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738861/bfaf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letolonenuxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134095956/0249470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuguzozivef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739994/c0725157b9f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizedugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453818/penol-labamodipiz.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/mujesogi/55243224085.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000103a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A3 4956 bytes
SHA-256: 66159ecc068f501ff35e891f76f4a8acbc43779cf7049e839644bec2fc6fe952
font_01_sfnt_off0001148c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1148C 10744 bytes
SHA-256: a349c384e72b06c93f12f77c7169ba2bc1d268b908c9e8f0c4a2155a2b75fadc
font_02_sfnt_off0001399c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1399C 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00468df452218f546d59995a7cf9b4297092e2fd476dbd2f6ce79846bd051107
font_03_sfnt_off00014e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E98 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230