Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e46ec7fc692374de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-11-24 22:13:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 709b53feb257f8201d7703fc6c51adb5 SHA-1: 96f2dcb2667c8c67c523ebefdfd31511d71bef9d SHA-256: e46ec7fc692374deda0187e3c32d49673ec40d866c904a9240ad4346aff69cf9
324 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a critical finding for a PDF redirector link to known malicious infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to transferring messages, likely a pretext for the malicious links. The presence of multiple external links and the ML classifier flagging it as malicious strongly support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise 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.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=transfer+messages+to+new+iphone+from+android In PDF document text
    • https://pikotefomulig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317367/duzegakukavupaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widijozitumude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688085/girajufa-nodogemetogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xumogimunosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607683/e52a51a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366969/normal_5f8e06ebc7cf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuvosukive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134718285/fcf259f84d5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutebipofan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134334370/9674097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427809/normal_5f9a54929c2ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d218627b-e86d-48a1-b453-4b25744b20e4/vopagotonijituzewigulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8b33c6c-fe57-4961-a20e-91214c147af2/36103329840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c7fe34f-d744-458b-8c2f-e714839003f3/merix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e135f0ee-7151-40e0-afeb-0e383411257b/jerri_mason_whittaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/048e02bb-21b6-4446-ad07-d0b19a7f2559/sivunuseratav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/povodijirig/cefr_level_a1_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/susopuzupure/simon_monk_programming_arduino.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_off0000cf63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF63 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 5819a42f878aa18b494ffb5e13f1b5b1041c3ba0c32f35f4d1b852f258d90ed6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DD 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 65f5b162a5a19e5479f102e6fe46d0557f674d293d8d8195bb6acfd909516fd2