Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3df44a1796a826e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-10-30 21:59:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 817a43459740f1fb7bd8cb4fb4b0b37c SHA-1: 35d324c544015a2c21b2b7bb5e53851295f5523a SHA-256: 3df44a1796a826e53513eb162dbca988c82ddc3176a86658302da1beb901a21c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the redirector link, suggesting an attempt to lure users into clicking malicious links under the guise of scientific content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=silica+gel+column+chromatography+method In PDF document text
    • https://naxedomabaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606472/b3f46712be6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xikosenazegan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739601/2920097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenagudewujuga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164273/tuwarafasexaxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386830/normal_5f98276e29118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365580/normal_5f872c3f6ff5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366050/normal_5f8742a0cc691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riragojefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/ce7b35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4726/3131/files/19445475320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/38adb5ff-2561-48a9-8f63-3326e57c3f7d/5259617916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/13b171eb-c741-4910-aee6-f5246b853eed/bostitch_rn46-1_case.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0505/5374/9701/files/27551456966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca922317-1156-4d69-86ee-dc55e91ba490/15052312606.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_off00006ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AD2 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 05eef19a789de1e5e0119a00b280656b097a432c8dab09f214f0cc46f40666a5
font_01_sfnt_off00007d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D6E 10388 bytes
SHA-256: c23dfb6e93920f34fda5b543517109cb71165da650605b20f537a752bb598236