Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df1c2c3a262479b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.7 KB Created: 2020-11-28 21:23:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2d29a39ea94f84bb050c8349a235601f SHA-1: 007de5bc961a5e5d38bf882c639aa83971685289 SHA-256: df1c2c3a262479b0bc978e825025003e4d58b801499608d57ce69089450a14ab
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. One prominent URL, 'https://traffnew.ru/strik?utm_term=remove+broken+light+bulb+with+potato', appears to be a redirector for a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://traffnew.ru/strik?utm_term=remove+broken+light+bulb+with+potato PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369788/normal_5f88ec7e6bf86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366642/normal_5f91a16aaefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duxujofibedusor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134577283/kebomuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kutepazibug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134477769/4450046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuxagaselupig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134016775/95c0220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusidotug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134482214/2634617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lipitedo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134380968/gotebewovosesiritixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevokelas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310014/1765039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vewusijonaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134489037/kawew_zogudoxoja_gijuratok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajojixuvoporor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738555/tuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sixodajumam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311071/nurasagu_vabiselu_nunulusesagim_namemobadivod.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/xilasisefi/ridan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivuxo/80221476327.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_off0000c336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC336 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed65e0e49e0d7c223f64919aafa547e5db34c8eb53c31e12f66292a0ea257ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000d591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD591 10740 bytes
SHA-256: e3e4ae41bead6d90298441e33c162058634ec0872d14213cb5521d2f6160b03d