Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 294cf131eed95c58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-10-15 16:13:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 45296e617f63a9f5d59de5dade192d11 SHA-1: ebb6ee547359ceff3b216e186ad65a93120c9973 SHA-256: 294cf131eed95c58ab1d5932d036f8190d5b0f6b6fd3ba53b6a385ff3f4f338c
232 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector's target. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm designed to distribute traffic or SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=inclusive+education+articles+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://site-1040125.mozfiles.com/files/1040125/tokulogivifisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039332.mozfiles.com/files/1039332/57677920450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041770.mozfiles.com/files/1041770/guxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038505.mozfiles.com/files/1038505/27335863389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038471.mozfiles.com/files/1038471/bagumelexateruximetureto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365525/normal_5f8780fc15d5b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366034/normal_5f874e93caa8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366987/normal_5f87830fc6fb6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366402/normal_5f88173750f89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganulexotugoris.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164012/4225764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boguvetasitob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380850/metunazarajo_gurelebufekizot_gasagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawasolasazilem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379174/d1ee3c84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozunutav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969695/kubojakefuji.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/e2411588-fc0e-4130-aefa-b291421df0ec/bojumopigezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/348b3bee-2da4-4601-b247-bee1a0161236/34712971866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f2c8bde-77f2-4619-91b7-1b8bbf481e67/47999392290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0309a49f-e6d9-48c8-90fa-4249b5697dfa/vokipuruzewoferax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c262ee41-d08f-473d-8f3c-c3bd01528f0c/25767958546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/49f188e5-f699-4136-9763-06db59fa941f/94898169775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0cf3696-a94f-45d9-9f1d-55b3dc841470/saganejaxevugijazukuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/254b7ff1-c50f-422a-bfc9-64d5479f4a6e/78587568461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f2881f5-3069-4ce0-88b5-648444177c4f/93727113601.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_off000067d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67D8 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 0a043895c30ff7c2111e01a6ee3225573055c0a62656b5762f8c7aeedd9f170c
font_01_sfnt_off000078f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F9 10492 bytes
SHA-256: abd7be46450160f736a8c87227168d3e9fcd54cdc6df909f134bdfacbcd4593b
font_02_sfnt_off00009cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CB8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2