Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24c0ef918782230c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.3 KB Created: 2020-10-25 20:05:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ae4b2794717e003da6e902657f745a1b SHA-1: 650f9fbb3fd49ee3e331a3f6869d0bc8d6298750 SHA-256: 24c0ef918782230ceead902bf015ebb63f61a5a2cca1394b38f60f1b37db00fd
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and redirectors, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ggtraff.ru/aws?keyword=an+introduction+to+empirical+legal+research+pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and embedded URLs suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://ggtraff.ru/aws?keyword=an+introduction+to+empirical+legal+research+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fitijozis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134372299/dunumila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoretesani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315313/luworifoxefegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suganolorifumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814011/6181531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximazula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738777/jumutanemetavixemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxozajuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/8980310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383916/normal_5f8c3baf0f073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369656/normal_5f89e2e2bc03f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366369/normal_5f873bcb47cd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zavomafig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356936/morokipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mipirizu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682564/nerowosewafisere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dujenavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366251/3394139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384468/normal_5f91c8a1da2a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366311/normal_5f937325688ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376610/normal_5f951e457ddbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379964/normal_5f937f1098307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6146c64b-eb6b-4aaf-8469-05620b304798/kasowefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7cb5542c-673a-4bd6-ba84-79c0e6e63f59/dragons_world_breeding.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb5bbce3-03fc-472f-8e2a-05767621cb3d/51053482431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44a43737-13c8-496e-8be4-52c90ad82122/64804069845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wemupajese/gafapagimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/leguvefu/a_beginners_guide_to_investing_ivy_bytes.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001ccef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CCEF 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 80d3b03e879fef798b2cf6e9e56b385aa615c1870b031b6e2e1c705c0d741a68
font_01_sfnt_off0001df35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DF35 11632 bytes
SHA-256: 9acab3e86a788fff4f814c94ef1e318b3af210d99f985be574a6a4943e881025
font_02_sfnt_off000206db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x206DB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378