Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faeb24c3b1f69c29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2020-11-21 01:53:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 152e67b9e7991bf43a7a30299ccd3fd1 SHA-1: 1ac4db23249dd1f1fbeb0fbadf62ea36c970cfc1 SHA-256: faeb24c3b1f69c2992a02f9efa38ed7b19ed3b9ed24457661c45b10c1df81e06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely contains JavaScript intended to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the listed URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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=santa+rosa+city+bus+schedule+route+12
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379854/normal_5f9121b115ee0.pdf
    • https://fenivubad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134482284/4970263.pdf
    • https://demogevofowa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608938/4203019.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390371/normal_5fa99c82a3bd1.pdf
    • https://xiwodaboxidedu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134647922/9078128.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366010/normal_5f875a469c824.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gewisetug/tepujuvaxesu.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a363e854-2e5e-458e-8d9e-ba3b58c88ace/59943381051.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e58dfcd-debe-4d44-9609-803d549e6cb8/harry_potter_pc_games_free_download.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f97a8b92-1d38-420a-b494-0859f04e9470/47918471131.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17362b00-c4b2-46bb-ae9a-3a7770b64f82/wetozaxamenobusuzov.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_off0000c85a.bin
f220c43a9a33cce48b9e0f558e327a2138c1e0c72e001f18ca5890d0f32a3e40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC85A 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db3d.bin
ffe1de101b8c19ad3cf745b18c13e6beb8f0b2d209c5c8d1fc7d7162e0eb0aa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3D 10372 bytes