Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c07f4d5131ca76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-11-09 15:58:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a6a6cc87ebd51b4793d25f13bc714b6a SHA-1: 9553a01af4687a6d05cd0362f6a98a00c6aa9534 SHA-256: 45c07f4d5131ca76add9c988e8cdb38f40ad5c4662d4175d534e70140e57daa6
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://fekanefitogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340372/varebe.pdf.
  • 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/aws?keyword=colt+1917+ebay In PDF document text
    • https://fekanefitogi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340372/varebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366000/normal_5f87e39460e12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rutedidatares.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134490949/rusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372373/normal_5f900355a4145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gasipepimajut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367512/6219240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tojuseviru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134513446/zesujeremifi_nugekudegotero_derinogowap_dawusabelesiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogezisatizate.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/a4293.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/lodunixodetum/1921777554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ropuba/27976991576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b9f04f7f-27d0-47b4-963a-c8d1b3c4c65f/96283528088.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_off00007687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7687 4840 bytes
SHA-256: b09082690a9d162445d9aaa37c1ddac3fa97345bd2d330daf56f5de14e591bf8
font_01_sfnt_off00008722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8722 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 07adbd9bf7ee3b0cb37609f5ed8086c32a34bb30ff48cbfc71e3d493d07f66e0