Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deae657ac41cfb5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.4 KB Created: 2020-11-11 15:00:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1db06849340c6ec501ea45213f57f7d5 SHA-1: bafe64bb409e2c5c5a5d4bae43fd919c3d9068fd SHA-256: deae657ac41cfb5fded477257bcf54a631b796f4cd5ba316caae394cebaf11fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to benign files, but one key URL, 'https://trafffi.ru/aws?utm_term=modern+optical+engineering+pdf', is flagged as unknown and is likely part of a link farm or phishing campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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=modern+optical+engineering+pdf
    • https://senobatupubem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437889/fovilatema.pdf
    • https://bavibexovapow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134643610/malavo-lajiwevokaf.pdf
    • https://kidunaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437100/dulovelaxetufiz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lopadivupudexa/micro_touch_max_hair_trimmer_green.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/henghuili-files2/apes_textbook_friedland.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tomamujuf/jet_ski_manuals_online.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e1b2211-1454-4395-9b9e-79a07464cb9a/52924128640.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/16261eb6-6bfc-4b7c-9294-08a5ea42b640/jipurokufifa.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/394e055a-8373-4bd8-9ae4-66cde0f0a492/98757784041.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e76d112e-58ff-40c7-a15f-f3cf4d39f6e8/minecraft_2d_games_unblocked_at_school.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/53a6566b-09fc-436a-b8f1-cdfab1e56f37/28492868276.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b696.bin
bec1a9c316792cae83570551dc3608a4555f248e3a4769672b052ff21ee4f9b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB696 4940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c770.bin
011b3c124fd6c699c725438f58ca5bf1f91eadf9b64921e62786b9020b090fc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC770 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb18.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB18 4324 bytes