Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6da9fc2200d4bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.1 KB Created: 2021-01-11 08:53:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 24f01fa5e00bb0bdc6fd517ad3c8c86b SHA-1: 89e476c3c554bffb63e158d7f7a38894aaccde25 SHA-256: ef6da9fc2200d4bb9604d672c5e70941d148cd1a7ce049b113481dcf8e888450
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and link farm structure point to a malicious document designed to lead users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=bucks+vs+knicks+injury+report In PDF document text
    • https://site-1168209.mozfiles.com/files/1168209/12427906120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1166655.mozfiles.com/files/1166655/big_shark_tommy_wiseau_full_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebazizezasij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586802/zefanetotomobizovoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bijifejutumaxob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381781/vuvaxulogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1174882.mozfiles.com/files/1174882/51640797512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxunomitebapat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606858/lukukaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pimuvetu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134635596/risafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vusuvorolom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134501440/gitenoruvukex_roxigegoda_pijiregeseti_jitobemeworobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/goremujoz/O0gdpiG/gulenujexamibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xefejevife/28169908804.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_off0000c69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC69B 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 643cd5ab6b4caae6ea9e4fe48b256bf7efebf3638a9a9bb09ba7412bc4f38061
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7EE 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 100c6071e3d26f7347312629ef586bb3ad556e0082faeeeeac0beb126bb0fabd