Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda6e8fa81a07044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2020-12-18 23:45:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ba6425fa36598476db32c3129cb1889f SHA-1: bc93574199192002b80676d752b0454a690533b1 SHA-256: eda6e8fa81a07044132249c6b805386a8d445d8772a20a95a7b0e838772760ad
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to Weebly and Squarespace domains, which are often used to host phishing pages or malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Advanced calculus of several variables' and 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure for academic or technical content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://trafffi.ru/strik?utm_term=advanced+calculus+of+several+variables PDF link annotation
    • https://lufukosiresefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134707539/337c70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilidikuvitas.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134766888/7463616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikokabiliru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409463/2ce436abcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366319/normal_5f9228711e049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455642/normal_5fb6baf754e7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378855/normal_5f97ed8fd5e1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gozozogedabasiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321967/b4ca2b46e4c9c6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413005/normal_5fd82dca10c61.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc328402e537a05ef17c917/t/5fc92c0477cab934d64e001f/1607019531529/27187167094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc6d09cbcf5f06bcb74d315/t/5fcfccf9e1dd1c3dab055de2/1607453947269/53051876340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc65710085bf90c0e2241e5/t/5fcd83576f0099009e7b754a/1607304026048/top_100_ringtones_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc5a2040a2757459b03286b/t/5fd645bfacac596b0cb623c6/1607878082757/mayo_clinic_diet_journal_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc5c92c11f6a41984a72880/t/5fc6858d3c6ccf69f341cc35/1606845839630/zupotijomoweluvezajoti.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE618 12948 bytes
SHA-256: 1177733e6042a7b99c1b1e0ec02fe4bab4cebfd941f574f7c64a4606b40e6caa
font_01_sfnt_off00010fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCE 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 45f8b1975f8df3ae7b26352f14c8b1e9c9dfc3e688a10afd8bec2d3e044e5978
font_02_sfnt_off000120d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D7 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 0d85d6cfa0ea482cc88e4b1caa0b74de2003ca27382ea2fc524cd38801d4cdca
font_03_sfnt_off00014771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14771 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c