Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 358ab941b4d6fc69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-10-07 12:55:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: da9eb115828101881c9c7a593558faba SHA-1: ae67e7e42db2e8d610b71a7395cbe1a7c80bf5e6 SHA-256: 358ab941b4d6fc694e901c2a6e86f807e23b0fa0fb3fba8af964f0ae8df084fb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One of these URLs, https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=eso+daggerfall+quest+guide, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain junk data, suggesting its primary purpose is not to convey information but to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=eso+daggerfall+quest+guide In PDF document text
    • http://saxawan.ambrosechiropracticcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380344/490d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.matej-cerne.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776077/temaxi-gategali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://povud.kbc-ministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398345/168d2deb7b93f7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cedarvalleyhandyman.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856191/rukopivirogapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mipurux.saralazzaroni.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/496ee76619ed8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edocig.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/7415937896e0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapabujun.greyingrassia.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776763/9473846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.appledentaleducation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406222/pofetenej_xurimilevezo_xefodelegezo_wafabebazezarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojer.naifamt.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874063/nokofejakos_dikuganolalir_gupuvafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off00005a34.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off00005a34.bin)
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/20029863-a469-4155-9132-fbcd4cfc8710/2950408773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/71fdf097-a434-4d3d-b3f2-42e64f054134/rerakawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6733a80-a195-437d-abd1-57580708eb2f/duxejakorilosuj.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off00005a34.bin)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A34 5160 bytes
SHA-256: e1771868998e737e46f656d27a3f70bf04727459131770f9098c3173297444f4
font_01_sfnt_off00006bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BCC 10252 bytes
SHA-256: e9623051ed13257925f20d34b9966ff3369c39d3f3fb3b279e432d6c863630ef