Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15f806fd834648d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-10-27 13:40:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 61ef4f20d0cef20c0cc49878d8d875f8 SHA-1: 2fe22b378f6eee16f5bc0cb94283863e5ab32643 SHA-256: 15f806fd834648d90e946b8be7b3e643ce4494e60c83e42526a9c43fbea32d90
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=corvallis+high+school+graduation+2020 In PDF document text
    • https://zirufifun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874679/porakidikekekexaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porujigiwafixuf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373975/8287847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sebonegipuwi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108682/nitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kilesikawagex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134372597/laxudanepugor-tesiwafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedotomonifagax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606429/49dff3858553f96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadeganerusoza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438541/35e455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodedofa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320626/8770173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvofexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163751/fejuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilifus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/sixukejomiwewanage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawogebewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134369376/7881465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumixivig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636813/babog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonerogad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438616/87b1292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21aaa0f5-6381-4bf3-94dc-773f45fea085/konica_minolta_bizhub_c364_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a469368-17b9-4eee-8fbd-66f566673580/19490659992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/361ada6d-ed3e-483c-b8e8-09756b469e82/jejevajumusarizuroxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e8b84da-e39d-4597-8b19-48e4edfcf835/boku_no_hero_academia_mirio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/41a2d386-4194-46f2-b074-167f35464373/praxis_plt_k-_6_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9281293-3187-4faf-a4fd-8cfcaa7ec937/gukure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/404cb800-2215-4242-a7b6-5837fe74be15/26636848783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/8391/5962/files/78669372675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/1292/9716/files/wiraxevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4178/3959/files/android_auto_toyota_sienna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/2277/6006/files/16551331708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/6093/1991/files/football_manager_mobile_2020_apk_ios.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_off00006f38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F38 5440 bytes
SHA-256: eb722fbbb0745e3a4058dcb75ec9a04d73bcbd1b8d3151ce2ec2f0f82a7572e5
font_01_sfnt_off000081af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81AF 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 0d6e7108f52025e42b1c9ad6b3c427e6bbcb4063065a8c078b109b62d758e65a