Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d38f69de85587230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-01-14 05:27:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: abb4a784aea77aa6df54720b6c9e186b SHA-1: 0080cd9381dae26a355c9650ab05875e300bd419 SHA-256: d38f69de855872308d3c79dbf553fcdea30c416a727a99a214e9edd19e5549ec
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded links point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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/aws?utm_term=oxford+picture+dictionary+free++full+version PDF link annotation
    • https://site-1083679.mozfiles.com/files/1083679/the_vikings_season_6_episode_2_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1193774.mozfiles.com/files/1193774/gifawizuwukejisila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410986/normal_5f9cbe3c5389e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424341/normal_5fb56b55c3efd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalolevezuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606508/givom-vadado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453540/normal_5fca767d1c4e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bolojowugupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886087/54e24521010b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bolefusugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868203/490517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jezagegilefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307882/60f3e2fd6db.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/lixasifasi/nice_guidelines_palliative_care_heart_failure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jolituzoji/20655653890.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_off0000d593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD593 5288 bytes
SHA-256: cc45779221610b04bcaf66605e617f3896f88a5d423a76249492c5343c3eb14f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AF 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 792c44823763f9cf270f93a0562b083afc26e286713c62f9f5b0c9e9bf610c13
font_02_sfnt_off00010e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E21 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 2a5f1667c2e343500efde63e3dd6a136498333968b1680966ac5eb34589f1174
font_03_sfnt_off00012320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12320 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176