Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c7c946374ee0c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-10-15 02:31:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 96869d9c08f6eeec1358b910668b1c47 SHA-1: bee574a4bf0bd6adf000aa49876be86cc267e40c SHA-256: 4c7c946374ee0c499f0f64b9d963fb7c4da73991fa17285d945a6b12b950a7c6
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with over 30 external links, including a redirector to 'gettraff.ru' with a query parameter suggesting a lure for 'aadhaar pdf password protected'. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' indicates the document is designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting a credential phishing or redirection attack pattern.

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.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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=aadhaar+pdf+password+protected In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366973/normal_5f8735ae6bbf4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365612/normal_5f870a0c691ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366057/normal_5f876ac8ceb5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366048/normal_5f86fb38596e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039275.mozfiles.com/files/1039275/girisonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039305.mozfiles.com/files/1039305/92921561800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042204.mozfiles.com/files/1042204/51401253923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1044017.mozfiles.com/files/1044017/22854566181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1044117.mozfiles.com/files/1044117/10440058171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040242.mozfiles.com/files/1040242/2965766959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041608.mozfiles.com/files/1041608/xunetijosoruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365620/normal_5f875af65de53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366004/normal_5f870100889d7.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7567846d-caa5-4d05-8b5c-83c9aa075f1e/rejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06f64510-36cd-4e3f-b443-ad9937497a05/71380299846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8893a878-842a-4a2d-a9f9-db2746af31ca/nijoxedimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a0ca878-9d40-42ea-9b1b-33f48e9828ec/78366402292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/908f845d-e248-4070-9bf0-4c5cad4a967b/likiranuvizatebibunapufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/6609/7309/files/semi_interquartile_range_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5795/5494/files/civilization_iii_manual.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A2 4924 bytes
SHA-256: 72d1dda578df91ab1ca0e618ced2521551d47b182d6dada0a97ccd97b0fa6964
font_01_sfnt_off00007987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7987 10060 bytes
SHA-256: d0a4b344802247d25889688df02fbde781370f116c932dd18a4f92f8b7b9f018
font_02_sfnt_off00009be4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BE4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3