Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a2b34d1fc705b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.4 KB Created: 2021-01-11 21:10:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 6276efc349d771faf20ffc42c2317539 SHA-1: 5a584d494b114d0a3e025febd3a85e3165b6a62e SHA-256: e3a2b34d1fc705b1ec2ffe4fdfe87f80a430c4e063ebc2d809e59904b4b1d48c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Jungle adventures game' and 'wkhtmltopdf', likely a lure to encourage clicks on the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://trafftec.ru/wb?keyword=jungle%20adventures%20game PDF link annotation
    • https://nasabera.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134447265/rigibemoselasuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dibodowe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134686502/gedopuxuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jidugurulepapol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310086/91e3451c8b62b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewemekekebaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406535/2efecb114f5e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiniwotonupit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776343/8935963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuwonerosetopux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606808/9a3253e9a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lizuvozirowamu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134719338/nujesiwekiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubazabuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885093/5877162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadurevagide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999829/0b33cc7b7c9e1f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medizagokitoni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303310/1183494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427785/normal_5f9e50498cfdd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000bfd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFD0 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 52ec38857a993c04ac8984db7d4dda09a6336e3eedd958f4716d36771208aad2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16E 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 37b796a97eb9899d5a1361b2376e70c260e28ea2adae9308a2d79d33fb5c2b32