Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21cbe37f640d1425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-11-03 00:52:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4acc9959c824004cd2e9beb5fad44982 SHA-1: 83d1f42d28e35002dace9b3663fa59a0d0e34f38 SHA-256: 21cbe37f640d142502991f75c162b87d0bbf4aa5554fb129c999c89d7ae9b6c7
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it's a malicious redirector, specifically linking to 'ggtraff.ru' with a 'car park challenge' keyword. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a phishing page or a malware download site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/strik?keyword=car+park+challenge In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370077/normal_5f9884c9c771f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378378/normal_5f8a571eca1ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448984/normal_5f9ff0c451324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387565/normal_5f90694168342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dugitesabisaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134392589/6193550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376612/normal_5f8b1711eae8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vimugowome.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134323071/zakalaxudo-nexalo-vefekejowirejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/4202/0769/files/farberware_pressure_cooker_manual_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/2546/2982/files/transtorno_de_personalidade_borderline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jadudusujuje/47722184982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/6583/5157/files/stephen_king_characters_with_the_shine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/votuweroxigezog/66473006976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/4139/7149/files/22738078562.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_off00006434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6434 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 6b0482714355f22b1bf355825659a904b245e00127bce106bc99f3ad81c3b9b0
font_01_sfnt_off00007524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7524 9880 bytes
SHA-256: d582f592d9ac4529da2ced246e11abfad2f2e5d544cbe6bc88032488bc138d4f