Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34518f069638513c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-10-05 22:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: a0bd2fe70c5d988bc2772f5de027f6a2 SHA-1: 8e0c12db0690ff01e5ce8833cd7d86b6369f549e SHA-256: 34518f069638513c812f0e3b39f5d0e1dcb099a1472661cbdf8d27b466618089
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous links to external PDF files, indicative of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=friends+of+the+south+pasadena+public+library'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content.

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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=friends+of+the+south+pasadena+public+library In PDF document text
    • http://files.jhtheatricals.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164439/a999c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewisur.thesciencelady.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/fukurigaro-bufob-sepifoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lisalitberg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453624/2960326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehorsebakery.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695543/xobitabit-nafobegado-vojevowitobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikeken.recreationlifestylehealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379992/9618660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remolabob.kaptive8photo.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071145/5220575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hollarchiropractic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637219/3349817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caribbeanwesleyan.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814682/dugoda-buwewez-lelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wopog.vcnz.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969685/pexifika_lukubos_zuvenegibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.operationsavekc.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712324/xuserosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevelut.lifewithsqueaky.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873822/aecfacbc24e4ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pugofi.atlchester.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398443/d745dedc631c7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.regalimagegermanshepherds.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164075/dituwifulozu.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/3e535dde-c243-44f2-96ac-4a96d8d2e1ef/jovirozamozigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bb07e2ff-9923-4ef9-8f59-dd8fe74131dc/43386652440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5edd4c98-99a1-4b01-a8f1-afd1287e4114/42685514443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/167ad078-4193-429f-87b5-e0855895261b/18746718394.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_off00006874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6874 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 8a144e7d978cf9edc9c3b91c899abbfda738173bff480ea90b46401f9c8e7258
font_01_sfnt_off00007a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A7F 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a9de0d6ef19aa24b2261b3eadb7180346a76872b79c04d51f7cc9ccfd41d6497
font_02_sfnt_off00009f3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F3B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176