Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 454fea2d5074968b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-10-30 17:08:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 243219718957388a003f4c961da9fcc3 SHA-1: 71d029872045864486fcf27274765465f30721ec SHA-256: 454fea2d5074968b08d82a2606cea7c3a739c11e5d2aad999b38e50a416d9a46
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. Several heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with a critical finding of a redirector link to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are also present in the extracted IOCs, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=shriek+if+you+know+what+i+did+trailer In PDF document text
    • https://somolepudurupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332146/gawobadudo_bovufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisanofinupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437881/bixememofoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidevawane.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814252/bd8f79a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genigudepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070712/4e0d994f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junoxavod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/8762215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sujajikozodes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384638/6918844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nimorozidu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373006/4658522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vekejuritikoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/venemawuj-noxaropuneze-nabadebotisi-susetidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391915/normal_5f8e253652443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nizesuvijeva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607023/996a3751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vuzufexarevima/zekiroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nitirew/lomumanaguxadedisa.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_off00007232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7232 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 1762fdf6e727b23caa1e6a48f335292093d9cac30326d84a683f4972d7ac16a6
font_01_sfnt_off000083df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83DF 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 5e8e5738906d3f40dced5527f7710e8d6b097bff778df1f50374676e8b325656