Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea23d86ffebb0e7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2020-12-27 08:05:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 134f342a7950f519c4d53e7c4596f669 SHA-1: 18bae892f0e9925535618b8235aa1c6a2725aee2 SHA-256: ea23d86ffebb0e7e347364043c8e6e5173962a750135fa6f6da6872cfa6f751d
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with several pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The heuristic firings indicate this is a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting the primary purpose is to direct users to potentially harmful websites. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs are the main indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?utm_term=angielski+s%25C5%2582ownictwo+techniczne+pdf
    • https://putoxovomugov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739063/4267311.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387046/normal_5fde7ba77bb56.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426423/normal_5fa7e9ab9def9.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368237/normal_5fd87337c5a45.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447258/normal_5fa2b330cdb2d.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4392218/normal_5fc5c4ccd4d20.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465538/normal_5faf56dea3754.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6bba8a4b-a97d-4c90-844c-fb8e9fe631d3/29089663092.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voxulija/shareef_badmash_2015_full_movie.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e318.bin
ed1be1d86dbd6e0ea43cd428da9bfb647cc9311ed8c4f3604a7d77e3d4421583
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE318 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f586.bin
cb22eda7bce7ed4ddc5cc9ab78bfb5d512f324863ab87e028995a8046cb8410e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF586 11692 bytes