Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4d30cac3b171073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-01-05 00:21:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f1d110cc94fb47943accb2c5203da2f9 SHA-1: d1e0784b511721a1f364d12952789a43806caa2f SHA-256: e4d30cac3b171073406ef2bf403328116230cc58d7e90d9d6a07da655c2e029a
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Another critical heuristic identifies it as a link farm, with many external links hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?utm_term=las+puertas+del+cielo+cortazar+resumen In PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411709/normal_5ff3902470909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suganolorifumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814011/gosaruwemox-nitorananetad-vimolitav-waruxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basapozixuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134701575/romadufatarizeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jugizefabugej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134377355/nigofapusutowajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pobafegesodagiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305133/fivumufogigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferizovewop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134887996/sigewuxozuwageg_ximujasibidej_pilegexenogaka_xixupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvexora.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134618292/xopawemiwe_bulabaruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajagoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406288/posovenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jufavufopu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340263/78092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4483870/normal_5fcac8b86fe9c.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/7bcdb517-12a7-4d09-aba3-a989f45b8996/manual_hand_planer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gotenukevepunin/nuzuresisoz.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_off0000deb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB8 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 6491b47dfea02c3547bc717848e518874ffb631ffd56005900ec3caa32586f54
font_01_sfnt_off0000f063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF063 10960 bytes
SHA-256: a65742c34899e341c05338d3d9cc12277abc423be8da93c2994c267f72ad3d93