Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e58d0d1d4ab24a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-07-10 00:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: ac5f51e2e997da29ecb12ccaf4a92f64 SHA-1: 7f4d4d278cfc2caddc771fe1fc7a589e01fd64f7 SHA-256: 0e58d0d1d4ab24a98d1d060639444af8b6154bb085477c78440f197cfd9bc341
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, indicating it functions as a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, and another noted a mass external PDF link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content or engaging in SEO manipulation.

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://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=group%20counseling%20strategies%20and%20skills%20free%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pigmentsolution.de/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637219/3603987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.norcalsmartvestorpro.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/96f0fa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.a2dsolutions.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606550/jovefejejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camdenspeedwaytn.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814189/feronugifiboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.backtobal.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380210/b9e94d6e306d504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardson-community-psychology.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874575/52757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tristatefit.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/dobijefojul_xojirifiv_ruwiwejeroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hurstdesign.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710782/sepexuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hamlintruefitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856163/5216078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sterlingenterprisesllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454238/rimezofenugiv_molukugevetanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.texashollandlops.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/7953459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://kutuzuxuv.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/durebefako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokevupe.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nobirumezevekexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagepoxuro.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/21755864145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikemisar.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/xisajunadimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gavilot137689634.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/rivozizumagagufivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xezerak.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/vemediforuviwerinizapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/3359516262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovovowegafakaroseras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51906755497.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_off00004ca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CA8 5300 bytes
SHA-256: e50082ce772aa68e8cedb61b82d207d1ce29e96630fb1949af0939d8fc307aa1
font_01_sfnt_off00005ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC1 9780 bytes
SHA-256: f8da934c3718672498d1b12e9aaa0cea1bc6e40b9155cf241071a8c35b4da019