Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f91c9eb4b28d6c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2020-12-26 21:45:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7ed2cdc9702b91ec0d214b8317e2ce5f SHA-1: b9fcd17e83f1883d30990e93acfc7afe135ca3dd SHA-256: f91c9eb4b28d6c316f5bf367a4f0f886e92c803f4aea98929252e5846520b80e
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or malware distribution vector. It contains numerous embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Catholic novena for the dead' to entice clicks on these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?utm_term=catholic+novena+for+the+dead+pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepufaziru/jaljhmr/vewilu.pdf
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473938/normal_5fd07924be71c.pdf
    • https://lubutivewem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134881275/lunizogan-dopibet-rakemusukabujil.pdf
    • https://zeraxoxuret.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134642117/lafukopusudi_bavadiz.pdf
    • https://zidadosivifaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775619/04822379f.pdf
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sexifirume/j0hg6ai/18415076313.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6e64c667-ba57-4259-9a99-974ea767109b/38961874547.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/susopuzupure/11779088850.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jutenojamega/personal_data_consent_form_template_gdpr.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxepiduded/anime_wallpaper_for_pc_free.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/210290e7-31ad-422c-ac08-b246d9df3442/blaze_grinder_minecraft.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zaxuledo/washington_post_march_trumpet.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012aca.bin
2243c9e1c2fedcc0d404b9ad39ead6b7f2a5f5ec94475019313acced3d9e996a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ACA 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013be9.bin
018de0277cbfeace6845e09015213e5cd00406f33916e570bb0235c47ae62125
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BE9 11672 bytes