Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd5cdf7293e192b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2020-12-17 04:56:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be5fa224169e4dd70fb6db6fd91a9f2a SHA-1: 5dd01f2a6bc28bc7f19725b65c7bdd865acdb749 SHA-256: 4cd5cdf7293e192b7922504b17abd06f685ea4e81edfb944cbf1e6293fa7d6dd
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting or redirectors, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ggtraff.ru/strik?utm_term=maine+north+high+school+address, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/strik?utm_term=maine+north+high+school+address In PDF document text
    • https://zevijilutijeso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134850931/6994522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465919/normal_5fc44ffc07ca0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedakowunuva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134342711/vujavuzepubere_bujipo_pupexukebepati_sikovitenuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penuwepilaxol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134756509/545165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulojozizarotuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318677/6429046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wexemexaxixu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134709907/xolezawobano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8eec615f-cdf3-460b-a5e6-a78822948d24/luperiwabasofukarafiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fbb3b70c-419f-4a8f-83b8-f95464f2059b/83304399419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0a8574a2-9b6b-420e-8b70-c38add31094f/guia_bloodborne_ps4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc51c18a8793968642360ab/t/5fced5ba64290b1c3dc6470f/1607390650566/limbo_warframe_wikia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fcf001d6d04bc46d03b453a/t/5fd0bbe32f29925fbb55f465/1607515107635/how_to_play_movies_anywhere_on_roku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aabebc35-43c4-497e-bff3-dcc18b5e826e/14308299807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c40d90bd-3bd7-478a-8f9f-1068d6849ce8/csgo_keys_paypal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a0ae6aa1-e54b-4d6e-aedb-decabd56cfe8/calculus_single_variable_hughes-hallett._7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e9411c83-1116-4f8d-9039-3ee7bf27c576/pressure_vessel_design_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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EC 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 6be71bb4ad9f770a4e0d8bec608a45e2ef090d66052c052987036d16c81d64bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A4 10700 bytes
SHA-256: fb7a43a1df44f2ec69019fde8aa7742ed50babb8d16797024994e5b4556e09bc