Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 099a4d1bbd10f013…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2020-07-08 14:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: f2e1b4239f57a273f411f83c6b141f82 SHA-1: 9ee3ff22f80361d30b829def300e227832ec01ec SHA-256: 099a4d1bbd10f013fc6c3b11e582fdd2f2f0f97477232e48c788a5d23bb6ebc0
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, including one that points to a known malicious redirector, and is structured as a link farm. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains text related to a car manual and a URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. The presence of many links on disposable hosting further indicates a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=2007%20fiat%20punto%20dynamic%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.linhr.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070189/tabotusatoboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palmettopreswm.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379951/bd3da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camera1.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380413/pizixejawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bellarunequine.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696280/0df7a816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glastonburymotherscollective.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856518/8f54a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scharencycles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776118/ginukaxezunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bonneygirlphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681204/sapoxorufewodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.luxurybeautylounge.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163563/8035564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cvilleathon.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739183/warokazelibijefiketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aawholesaledallas.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163945/8f745b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://tanutukezod.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/78338292566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://julaxotetelu73207895.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/41201899361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxasegino.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/19857644310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xabofufutin.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/buluxuxuratepenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvozer.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/46772155910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeburov945496308.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/68518894634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zutatakinud.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/62952675705.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF83 3752 bytes
SHA-256: 10c52001cf7df6b63b219f2d161ba7b08693c87f70647cc2a1f520c0f65981c9
font_01_sfnt_off00010cba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBA 5152 bytes
SHA-256: af627e4390cbe2e9ba6fb39017f3f6a4ac7f8b34d69f964e580998685333281e
font_02_sfnt_off00011e26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E26 13288 bytes
SHA-256: e953f90e94410a841747964ba3eb1472df7fd644935ab3259534294daf0218cc
font_03_sfnt_off000148f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148F0 16088 bytes
SHA-256: b5f1397982530d9e987604a9fc8467d56fd147c09520e12e54de27667870b356