Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f60a8b4ee49e5150…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2020-11-13 13:49:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e345a37fc9549359be53b6b1d5da52d9 SHA-1: d68f1c9a70d3aa6935356d97aa47be6f489ea0f7 SHA-256: f60a8b4ee49e5150a3f8948d7668ec61b350414ae2493e259406b82ac2ef31e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=holiday+hearts+cast', is a primary indicator of malicious activity. The PDF structure and embedded content are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=holiday+hearts+cast
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427781/normal_5fa042871ad5b.pdf
    • https://bipalokepug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134492575/lexukulawiniwuz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xisakazelelinim/pozufawot.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/matogapibelifiv/tv_guide_bright_house.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b256737-d9c7-4dc9-b2b9-d177f7fe73b1/nakorot.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bd2d67e-5d5b-4928-a702-fd10b1b92867/dragonfly_helicopter_price.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fcd7ec67-7d59-4e17-bfa5-41c8178d3583/mejapesibuwigab.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44e8ed8a-9b50-4acb-b36e-5c962bfb4540/takimozilofuvop.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b1696d2e-c923-4d2f-86f8-e1000c1b2ec7/rolujetowatanapadav.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuses/how_many_bottles_of_water_equal_a_gallon.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce1f.bin
91f5641c9b5a0102b3825081e253b19d2fb0123ac199b5ac4c203548f009598f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE1F 4772 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de6b.bin
4e797e279c80b86c24f23bb6f01b28a442b035c1667b3990b50e627edc64c0a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6B 11012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010422.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10422 4324 bytes