Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4080f4360b6df495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.1 KB Created: 2020-10-03 23:08:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 23ef32ca388ea269c09a2fcb82398efa SHA-1: 8d0095af5f9c8fb8951341a440a3a8791cbc434b SHA-256: 4080f4360b6df4954a4b31c276f35e017ac9ce101b65379bfc1ab5c649bcfb60
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains obfuscated text and a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=allah%25C3%25BCmme+ente+rabbi+la+ilahe+illa+ente In PDF document text
    • https://site-1038980.mozfiles.com/files/1038980/sipararoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xowetalo.thelavendergiraffe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453284/kimije-woraxugiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.herbansprawl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438308/4638709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bonnetcatering.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452989/45fdab1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.createandtransform.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482968/6468229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tngeographicalliance.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775707/9f492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pflagladylake.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969980/jefufote-dogakexas-rarejowobitadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takubuxol.harrillconstructioninc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/tokuwidoliro_sumupavi_rimawisoxa_sapegorikila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kurskeducation.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856308/sebukazibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/5366/5442/files/shadow_of_war_hidden_achievements_steam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4747/6648/files/12306847977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7474/7558/files/line_of_best_fit_exponential_desmos.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off000152fd.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x152FD 30764 bytes
SHA-256: 3c683faec9cd226b7e5f26857c46efa107ff96e02843a90fb50a65a7eec79ba2
font_00_sfnt_off00011d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D15 4676 bytes
SHA-256: 00f7871a3eaf8b384e855e84eaccdddfa0696a4199985db610266057c8a35f21
font_01_sfnt_off00012cc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC4 12440 bytes
SHA-256: c014f04c6b1686fb49e959cada1644ab7fd1234bbdf49f6ee4f74e89704840a3
font_03_sfnt_off000189de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189DE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378