Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae70f9d1bfe08b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2020-12-18 11:55:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4d0dbc8ed4cf83e0b3ac17634b2bbb74 SHA-1: 7547b2d50578f8e021524fd0e63b848116b176b4 SHA-256: dae70f9d1bfe08b9c7e6ecfd84c28ea06c9cb3092af146ed145d123eb7ce492c
252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that lead to external sites, including a known malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' lure suggests an attempt to trick users into clicking these links. The document's structure and the nature of the links indicate it is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/aws?utm_term=game+grand+battle+royale+apkpure In PDF document text
    • https://kubupukadumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382740/loxutasevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378623/normal_5f8a088fc52b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bewapuvin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453684/7896672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonikisemuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902350/8865356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4407552/normal_5fc841f4f0941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vifoxofanope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134670603/287380d0f5b18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gakupimofol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134583622/kugofotovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jarapitoxedomel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437170/fotamesu-jorunonule-xitewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fojaxekixuwid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134743661/setavene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gumopukuzi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134481114/kijajiwufugatuzanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jigusamimuwu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134435445/setigidutusamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sizukejagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681884/wujulafo.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/baxekojojexusol/bhairava_full_south_movie.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_off0000daf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF5 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd785959b9f2600d0980280e713244bfd09215013569308ae85c8eb6baf8324
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 21b6ed159482a1de7b78dc1b8596240ff7feaed37dbb468554eaab388a02192c