Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 035abdbfab661d8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-10-11 00:11:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 16d3d0bd41cd40770ebc11b3b7c870e3 SHA-1: f110ff1a2609ccc74578f82b8b0c235851b54537 SHA-256: 035abdbfab661d8ac83e913d6c39c2e6073f58d4a20e1f5699e234b47b91a90d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirectors, indicating a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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/strik?keyword=minecraft+pinewood+derby+car+templat In PDF document text
    • http://files.dressagestars.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969238/4027469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitulo.lkonsite.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739353/putifikose-divarunuk-kofasoruvekod-lelemiwogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowiz.xyzform.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380433/1741844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blackbirdroofingcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131608016/6671107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xojije.lister-polyflex.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871979/kimokudemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mandpflooring.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438130/8ab03fc7218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zevib.blythewaltrip.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164157/e19b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carriebburnscyrenesmrgc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384412/4306153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulijex.nataliekimballfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636665/5b6d75775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/335fcfd1-2cf1-47e3-bb68-9ea9807d5a80/13131990449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5c393c68-b01b-4c18-8061-35c7b91027a6/88061906232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fba3b143-69af-42ab-bfd7-38bba7e64de5/25696205187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f6391f5c-1b4d-4a41-bb10-ad256b53c20f/31915080018.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6922 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 90ba08f8371df69717fb3a1f3649999768de6ca60277447f92cb8220426ebbfa
font_01_sfnt_off00007aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AEA 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 4fae58cb8094ececc093d9352f6dabeb5849a98d2d11ebaf9863f3cbecd92319
font_02_sfnt_off00009e0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E0D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230