Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdee794f15130306…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2020-12-25 09:58:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f653c179a5a5b4b898eaa2ec360e0181 SHA-1: 705adf89537bb108a662d159605803f1e386368a SHA-256: fdee794f15130306ccc1297f45d3028f994a2577aa64c0344ddd7aa2800ad8f0
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. Heuristics identified these links as malicious redirectors and part of a link farm. ClamAV also detected the file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to facilitate the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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=milky+way+bar+sizes In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369922/normal_5f9cf9936dc51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kugakisan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134390280/nogalololaxoru_xikiz_rowanikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxuronanupew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597487/a00f94d57f36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vorevowupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633589/5749519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutitujazekap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814390/ratefunerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vusugurubem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969976/6461903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mejawazur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265830/a84e32005765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lefemijip/gibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0152d87c-8c9c-4273-8f6c-075d9a68dbbd/cranston_ri_registry_of_deeds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sojaxub/tekogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juzinaramip/gipavexot.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD651 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd17535e2fc2b964cf2fec003f4d928072620fccfafa3547d2fdae42098f5fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FB 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 4d35df2b8f63421b8f3ddae33cd245c854dae45e87364eebe715353750d9c36a