Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f45a9096333bf617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.5 KB Created: 2020-11-20 15:15:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3f9259d0d63afac452a5504db12336d9 SHA-1: 19764478eadd2ae29ffda878f72f2cab353d62de SHA-256: f45a9096333bf6173c0a2535868a55f94411910e2099f88594ff5175f6e5fba7
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on disposable domains. One critical heuristic indicates links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. ClamAV and an ML classifier also flagged the file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its direct lure, but the extensive link farm strongly suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cctraff.ru/123?utm_term=alice+in+wonderland+cheshire+cat+cosplay In PDF document text
    • https://mesovozilepako.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588792/27392a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401540/normal_5f9a03b98115d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pununoruvok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134693134/wetanezobiforosizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417422/normal_5fa54d098c5e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruzetutenu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633181/fixujemabopi_gowato_faxovelezowofem_noture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vukasusig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349680/4787200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasumorupukefu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134581702/niwirakemurebedadiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megadezatesaram.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776649/04609804.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce5ce680-d97d-4e3c-9902-8d24cf48307b/colorado_intern_year_survival_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a475b3c7-9f95-4b19-863d-95b158d24261/ejercicios_de_trigonometria_4_eso_resueltos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01ab65bf-af5c-447b-8ef8-7d4953551dfd/15646466100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2498cc7b-d0f4-454d-85a9-2f316ec82491/58167900205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/694e2262-e826-42f6-baa3-3c8e526636af/mad_magazine_533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dorobukasawituw/65174563431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e252d92-1434-47bb-8151-1937f4399b77/breezin_thru_theory_answers_chapter.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB71B 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 8c133a5ce497f5c89f008d7ff6e5f0d79bd73ed5b196ac8e5a294671626d5f69
font_01_sfnt_off0000c887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC887 10128 bytes
SHA-256: dd55f71f810b500d63d83d1b70292672a9eb40704f8fed62fdd72c8fb0bac18b
font_02_sfnt_off0000eaf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71