Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4d4a2b91e6cacf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.2 KB Created: 2020-11-10 05:01:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b4582789f11f7e221fe94b49dee90f3b SHA-1: c7a474f5dd23907260cadd0b2a7996aa31e8bb9d SHA-256: d4d4a2b91e6cacf3f4cd101446263263d88b4ed9447855115d264903861860e5
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain junk data, suggesting it is not intended for human consumption but rather to host these links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=diaper+crossword+puzzle+clue In PDF document text
    • https://bozalugim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134343660/5904669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powizosiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134041047/5cddaf947ebc5ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jabizujosewej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584717/d9cce7f9241135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajusumuke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741128/1376160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371543/normal_5f8bdf68b22b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidunaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437100/fenozurelejur-vupipetefa-romowaxotadoro-fuzipazogitula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375355/normal_5f8f79f97f60c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruwadegefanum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108857/xovosogol.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/xezujuxoz/main_causes_of_poverty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buponuwebi/vikuzowe.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB007 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 9b062211b4d54c8ccb93ce0648db124741d322fb907371391e6d090621e9385f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c1eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1EB 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 4b52cfb54a74fe06d616b7fe3267fdc19b0c7839153bfd8c6ff0e05de5121b8c