Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef20bb8fa51f3a92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2020-12-24 21:06:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e90dadc97cee77950b242798989137c SHA-1: 1cd7cbcc271e0db7fdfe8a892c1778359f6f1874 SHA-256: ef20bb8fa51f3a92d5fbcc73b23b48689a4ee02117ca3fd0d343fab04e786a6c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. One of the URLs, 'https://traffine.ru/123?utm_term=clash+of+clans+loot+cart+full', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

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
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?utm_term=clash+of+clans+loot+cart+full In PDF document text
    • https://fobabugukejapa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134576868/dc25d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kufudazasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134626120/gagatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanoritixuvu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134874131/1831415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381082/normal_5f98ee5dc4539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoxiniguve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584112/4343667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dirigesibujov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969991/7cb34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vajawopi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597817/fuwodofibimonufipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fofumizuzel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740209/buxetebudanusajide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozizagozesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134848764/kekunanubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369782/normal_5f8e23d089a8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378171/normal_5fd61f3d94816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kunubixofatefif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096788/8026706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thdl.org/http://www.thdl.org/TibetanIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6b52283c-f152-4b5d-83e1-3c1d9a6ddf4e/mutant_chronicles_rpg_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6fc568e-7736-4048-b306-8d04f4306f0d/turtles_all_the_way_down_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vonutavekip/tisakidirivujatagesufop.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlTibetanIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD534 4708 bytes
SHA-256: beef36c54ec729a915207190a9cfcb6a4ecca9348384635e187a44fb38460bdb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE525 9064 bytes
SHA-256: 618bb3b530a24af2f21b676647d6268ead0c81b57fc00c62780fad2484514bc0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F7 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 1f85943c3a687e6ccc09708596fd8df52131f52ec665d983cecfd62ce0941ae8
font_03_sfnt_off00011bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBB 16212 bytes
SHA-256: efa10eb016e3f3b0b4b9ca88735192a2169c3e2ea1838fdfae102cdad0ae9fb6
font_04_sfnt_off00013115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13115 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378