Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 345dfa8941e4a5ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-11-08 12:20:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a2a84fbb864aac6e6a34f362c9e1eb3b SHA-1: 16c7e116bd5e21a11c7854f39bf55871e2edf2a1 SHA-256: 345dfa8941e4a5edabe8a40c890f00216a8411827b1276a7d9014445a2f7c274
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a malicious redirector, which is designed to lure users into downloading potentially unwanted or malicious software. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm intended for SEO manipulation, likely to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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://traffmen.ru/123?keyword=google+chrome+free+download+for+windows+10
    • https://bitejidiguxuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134484476/93775978e9b728b.pdf
    • https://risimapi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321435/2284e468d.pdf
    • https://bewimowijukoja.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584545/539d1322.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369302/normal_5fa3ed5336b9c.pdf
    • https://vemetufubejukat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367776/1676084.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366660/normal_5f89d5dfb1658.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/resixexi/wyoming_sex_offender_registration_act.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c48599fd-ba4c-4593-9830-b84cdfe606d4/ladul.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff56c50f-fd84-480a-900b-2b67eff1c99b/69686438650.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wesezuzuvalirik/35481005186.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/74e866c0-a1d3-4552-989b-c0c375eb54ec/masse_volumique_terre_vgtale.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a73619d-9261-478c-bd0d-07701e9cdacd/tovosagi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c1e7f51-52fb-4e4f-9718-575f0d65a392/76123627665.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061fc.bin
bce583aebc0ab72ddd0dc40bb21e315c82d12a683fea8fe0255b4a2e8a753d83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FC 5752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007582.bin
ad190dfcf05cd74a4b6d3e7b92861fd16542c759e0e8be976fe74983af55b7bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7582 10392 bytes