Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dbf62d751458619…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-10-20 11:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5a8a818b1cd25e7ded5f69f944245191 SHA-1: 4a12aec95292f4c4d145ecf6aeccc0dfc4f3baf4 SHA-256: 3dbf62d7514586193775d0e75604ed7631b99d8fe5f791061b875a8174e55a16
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 of which point to disposable hosting and are likely part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=download+barron%2527s+ielts+4th+edition+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to downloading educational materials, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=download+barron%2527s+ielts+4th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/1109957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botubadixebom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407995/ce1b23a0b10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saxexowiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969873/44b2c6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepisukuwen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606293/sagamolora_munozub_wugiwalukigaban_basegifoxasele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bijifejutumaxob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381781/viwiwogobadivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viweposedijul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070314/sixasages-kakexotob-dabegowonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokixesope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/2106393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wozuwonasanava.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483955/5878652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367005/normal_5f8731318a458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383572/normal_5f8c4a404d0db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_5f8756374c4fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/530ac909-f4f2-451e-b586-78087746d873/80327365159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7a66786-1a45-428c-966d-7c3280fbf169/87190564601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78d1e617-b5af-4a5c-951b-34e3d5882607/maruvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f43d5904-7eb0-452f-8260-958881e955a2/46378575351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5e04dff6-9e38-40e1-b357-f4766f277bd0/pidizidodenova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/629e7329-2999-4b5c-b3db-6133a1aec240/rugibinunufixigumoxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/67ab3c1c-a2b4-4f78-ba3b-4b0d8c0b1009/c_primer_plus_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/81a681ce-5b1c-409a-9cb0-66fba5ea68b1/dozumubidokera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/3785/0262/files/pic_collage_with_video_app_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0492/7258/6396/files/what_is_the_meaning_of_falsework_in_construction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/0194/8577/files/60585263039.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000624d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x624D 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 68f912b230c9a0361836fed21eb54847f2d0b5415d1f30f5a7f58d17e6ef3956
font_01_sfnt_off0000750a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x750A 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 2c40e3eb1f9ca3b60beacda7c71cb80bd4d0bab32ab42f4b2dd2ab5cd29e3382