Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cee720619929421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-01-10 03:24:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: da8569ea4bb47847194ce5afd80e5cfb SHA-1: e0d243d04bf20bb338d246125492974c1fde5d32 SHA-256: 0cee72061992942101d4e8eebd120728c8ed1cb3540417ff737917cfaa853845
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirectors. The primary URL identified, 'ggtraff.ru', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document's content, though obfuscated, appears to be a lure for users seeking "analogy questions and answers pdf", likely to direct them to malicious or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ggtraff.ru/123?utm_term=analogy+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485457/normal_5ff28e11a50be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470540/normal_5faa06d265e31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/velovezem/nggrdsW/57138576200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380707/normal_5fab3a85e8075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386363/normal_5fdb839d440f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilitopamazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134313639/pifinuritinejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485942/normal_5fb757aaedbc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tokuniti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134331772/dosasu-viwuvodageven-gipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabesala.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394244/8184763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimitowogavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134746983/tuduratafupokalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vezorobabuwej.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969079/21ad56e36f3d97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369928/normal_5f8812bab1a35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4457302/normal_5fe16206115fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1171511.mozfiles.com/files/1171511/solar_system_3d_model_project.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4410206/normal_5fed37ca9605e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jarebomu/icgjohj/can_you_buy_california_lottery_scratchers_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000dca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA2 5516 bytes
SHA-256: ba07d12e801f244b6463c2fc7bd9f7d637ca77cbd7453c13d5cce80ff1b36847
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF82 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 41c7f5668890d3fc4ac8f519f1e16962f957d15f3e78ed087791bbf0836c57d9