Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 451badf12e465046…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-10-18 18:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1e9e4f3be5c403f373f8f9e4ecdee82e SHA-1: 525bbfd134972f55cc7dd95cfe3c5352caa06a32 SHA-256: 451badf12e465046a9223e5454c77d255dbfca7c25d15d7f7c638240b31889df
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, forming a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=steamvac+spinscrub+manual, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and benign-looking PDF links, reinforcing the lure.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=steamvac+spinscrub+manual
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366642/normal_5f87bb375322a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366381/normal_5f8961f5e1819.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/015a5ff6-7560-4a42-8ec8-9cfc8457830c/53557095147.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8859d13-5dc5-4a28-bad8-dd2dbabea89c/rijovofodesom.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/323e5e99-6a7f-4981-b418-1fde4b7ce956/lakolimeve.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/47496a77-a5f0-4509-b9f0-62314283c694/dewiwagixodaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9681/0670/files/santa_maria_in_trastevere_roma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9261/6390/files/siduzafug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0714/6146/files/1084595584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1709/2769/files/fate_grand_order_quartz_hack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9477/5710/files/18338336052.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da8b79da-9571-46a5-8b56-12321f0c6c98/mapalikaxotowapi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52c2683d-8afb-4bde-bfd1-dd36388ab611/15972151333.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/254dcb2a-1822-4a26-ad89-4820dc0c0edd/saliteno.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c7ddad8f-7c37-4f4a-af62-3b1b4b08c926/15569115039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1446/3394/files/72847119989.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9031/4141/files/97426503906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5059/7528/files/swtor_juggernaut_tank.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa427aba-02b6-4ea3-8895-d2f30e7f23a8/66741257536.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/86e13319-2701-4aec-9ffa-cb19c444c01c/9817156372.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004dd4.bin
c82a910ef668518e4709cf3443155c17772b38e517cf7ed3a85f2b4be6a32e50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DD4 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006001.bin
a15ec790413e8ee1c04d647f9e37557732fd3359da9de04299b301c78124cc26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6001 9556 bytes