Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de37772f03426090…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2020-12-13 16:20:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cd1c84b17d2dbcfe4aa3f389c3c17421 SHA-1: 1cc74dc6b1315b82571ca5df21b870753576ad51 SHA-256: de37772f03426090b064829f3e1861ccfa7280fad3139775be6c18f51fea5e8d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'minecraft' to entice clicks on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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
  • 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.
  • 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://trafffe.ru/123?utm_term=how+to+make+chest+labels+in+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • https://kelubipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134891634/vepomowaxel_kupewogopabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakirikixego.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318951/livezozisirowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foboxujegi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694162/a061ec131a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balomufe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134594694/209da0e883e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruwatija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134846771/54f559db91027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gavuzolarot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458525/6448227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamuvomamutafa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305197/38883c07a3710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368768/normal_5f884dc85c861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fceb868555cf06a6d12fe3d/t/5fd61f585488895576a33f96/1607868251285/google_translate_apk_data_arabic.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_off0000deeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEB 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 4fda8238d77ddf8d95d4b78e615942354d34a2fcab2e5c6f19bbc43eb0da27b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF118 10388 bytes
SHA-256: f5c4a32615906efe72935300b31f89d2d8f970e0a25ac9df02651dfc087c1471