Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18fefb8e26c269f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-10-15 10:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: f6448e2dd8ce5844b795bed0b4ebeb74 SHA-1: e00b5e511588dc702240ca254b4b515169798cc6 SHA-256: 18fefb8e26c269f379f753e97cd3788e3177db110494e57b15f9b34f3466f708
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains. The primary URL, 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=pronouns+exercises+pdf+esl', suggests a potential SEO manipulation or traffic generation scheme. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this document is part of a malicious link farm operation.

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.link/pify?keyword=pronouns+exercises+pdf+esl In PDF document text
    • https://site-1038351.mozfiles.com/files/1038351/58880679000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039487.mozfiles.com/files/1039487/58841216836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036760.mozfiles.com/files/1036760/31159376393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genigudepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070712/bagatazojiz_sidatasofugugor_sofaxazute_gureluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizebilawi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814716/8368871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/8e42bfb8d1b0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedunaxalow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606453/5365052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilifus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/jibepare-vudaramuzi-refirezagulele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojenosude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/3837160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/xewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vimiwegom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775837/d4f9789988777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kupugaxome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969415/09809c.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/839ae714-7853-4908-91d4-4cf0a63c53bf/lanuvumudorupodusetevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67333040-b1c3-43ff-863f-8ff84e445583/tiveninepaxuboxegavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/07df9b26-bdb5-43a6-bf10-8c24e9482747/tumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/96ff429d-b2b8-415c-9df8-c16bdfcf5d98/32584471459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a5a7e84d-b6a5-4dfc-b13b-b48b08d7ac39/berazupevokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a31be65c-94ca-4adc-a40d-6bb9f7684e52/fizuluzilafewarepiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0298/5621/files/midejutanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/6089/8213/files/lafutemojoguwej.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_off00009138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9138 5008 bytes
SHA-256: f1bfa15226ffe6e052780cf85559a24063452ac0691cbf61eaa10fea9f15dadc
font_01_sfnt_off0000a251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA251 12448 bytes
SHA-256: c80b014f03396430fa825988fb6346eed2b85cf5c033d4af56bef1eab07ba578