Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f407058346a0f23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-10-25 06:50:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 68fed3d8de712f685a727e69c7db2f78 SHA-1: 78228ddee5ac263fada21fda41068ad996596a25 SHA-256: 3f407058346a0f23a1e5ccc93df9ba9720ecc7263fab38667980a5db078cdb08
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to external websites, identified as a link farm. One prominent link directs to 'ggtraff.ru', a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=what+a+beautiful+name+hillsong+lyrics+pdf', suggesting a lure for SEO spam or potentially phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=what+a+beautiful+name+hillsong+lyrics+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nogafuku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815296/4871693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wudizibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134477582/9cb35c769a4e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ligexomapaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321337/3f43bb035547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirimanadawa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134383910/wavawawupuvebat-kifoporogatako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonerogad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438616/942126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papokerudinex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310480/9435163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keniwuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483234/digokasawuj-jipamuputevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juporolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380745/1696541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/5058540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutitujazekap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814390/fubisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://julefezi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131413/telopebifepesibixewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saloramorolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307331/dasimuvotepuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383314/normal_5f8c62d2c6588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369926/normal_5f91db22d8d75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365638/normal_5f8df5057485f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369309/normal_5f89095c33d5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370284/normal_5f91325ce61eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366348/normal_5f9247213ca1c.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/1/0502/8521/5940/files/sowatewudagafefowunib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5580/0739/files/53763446673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/8335/3249/files/punar.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_off000086ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86CE 5824 bytes
SHA-256: a0124943f6d29814d304f732417a862db72ff11cf7a4bca31d87fe360ed2eddc
font_01_sfnt_off00009a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A8B 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 1f68ea8f5e66ad53c63cdfd2f4c330a2806d3ed6ea99cb5ae39b0adc59966a59