Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc394c49d3f9d656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2020-11-10 04:33:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30f9467040c834981894e4a0b71ad1ea SHA-1: 791a9e2a005084395bc9d3386d9a0381ab73fff1 SHA-256: fc394c49d3f9d656b743b3214240d4d3e5e860ae85dafef47ff07ec30688f083
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The primary URL, 'https://trafffe.ru/strik?keyword=teresa+fidalgo+the+real+story', is likely used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://trafffe.ru/strik?keyword=teresa+fidalgo+the+real+story
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412164/normal_5f94319fdbe3b.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405652/normal_5f9b63b466ce4.pdf
    • https://wulenewovifof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588468/4469e1ede8d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386336/normal_5f9c259282793.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368489/normal_5f9f20466b690.pdf
    • https://garigokowexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134440629/zivutujupivokezafe.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408343/normal_5f98cb12b81de.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tenunud/cubi_killer_2019.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9f52fd4d-5390-40d5-8526-2cb8368c1e40/acs_citation_for_a_lab_manual.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/356dd6e7-ab6e-4e91-91c3-5a9e1ec496f3/78644462929.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04239b83-6c5d-468e-8c25-319a315a2fb3/26227943309.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eb3f8d84-be5e-4711-9720-f100fb381886/rival_ice_cream_maker_manual_8804.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_off0000c553.bin
60ffe1ad97a8885a3366f6672b41d366104a0879cdb556a447005bc455736f01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC553 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d714.bin
c66f50fe5ecf197c29cc132cdc0fced6f1c3bfa61646294525b6205da468fd5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD714 10732 bytes