Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b75b2cc631e90bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-10-28 07:39:50 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2875f0e0b82bf24151da16b46369e5d9 SHA-1: 829bdba851bbbf1349dc7c4c87e99b5d9cf85365 SHA-256: 1b75b2cc631e90bcd16c0c8f778fae3130934798bce9678ddf73bd4f603d72a8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=beginning+paragraph+correction+13'. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to benign documents but serve to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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?keyword=beginning+paragraph+correction+13 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368243/normal_5f8766995d457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366646/normal_5f87845d1d51c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375210/normal_5f9204bae6ca4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366348/normal_5f874632d155f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403805/normal_5f98daf565a12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365619/normal_5f872c59e6695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393499/normal_5f98c06662e76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387939/normal_5f93fe9cf3fc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402710/normal_5f946a0b0c84a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soxixafefude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134434462/988aa268b866a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xijonezamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407630/6600921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sugaguxagu/bertsekas_nonlinear_programming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/warapagefasovi/lenitiruwibubafogamuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gurowozenupifi/42726102181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d39eecfe-89f2-4a38-bd9b-16c40a9ae4e7/giancoli_physics_6th_edition_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ad4e40a3-ad77-43a2-a47f-059cb700a692/96012230169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bba12aba-e716-4093-ace2-76b971adc71a/mikijifufuxamimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/42dde9aa-ab35-4870-9043-c7481c95991d/ludifelideza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a9d1997c-c1d2-46df-bfc9-905057ee522a/goose_island_campground_wi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d4ca665-b2d1-4f51-85e1-b9c6fad1bd04/79990630628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f6b187b-1bc4-4920-954a-1f0b2f58a616/89352814240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf009d9b-8510-4903-9615-bd509071bc58/najanaxu.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_off00004fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FD0 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 87cc7d38fd51c3071c193950297c4ba8cd078cb42f11b62f483433f1d76f0330
font_01_sfnt_off000061a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A9 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 60146faf6f26a6e36c863ca5cd6623ab182b000f03c7b194d129df88c946d582