Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 504fb23d26bafe1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-10-06 18:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: b1e888df8f7116534f034464f1db9739 SHA-1: ef4ca2ed67eec6c7fb44ada7f0a833c84ac91a97 SHA-256: 504fb23d26bafe1c781e824bccc723e8246615915c302d7c3b7e866b561c444f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links to disposable domains, masquerading as search results for educational materials. One of the embedded URLs, https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=macmillan+ielts+books+pdf, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document's structure and content strongly suggest it is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=macmillan+ielts+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xenij.fredfredas.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303052/bebibed_nawin_katepofatogujib_fazanara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patefa.myteamtriumph-georgia.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682168/gawumijaxaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadaz.allisonlbaird.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070147/8869668e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tabletalkcleveland.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873995/6030321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.livingwellwholefoods.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452801/dfa4d7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedunex.cultureconnection360.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739591/8669198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silvertonnaz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406487/2271736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xilaxezag.lforlupus.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775451/2663980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parallaxphotographyrs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775831/pimaresekefeveg_nezurupubo_gurituvizepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cypresscoveconservancy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606206/1995160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijufewom.serenityhollow.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379117/2892273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujigopig.playsport-usa.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071117/617da0326d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0444/3299/files/nuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/6453/6471/files/patricia_hill_collins_black_feminist_thought.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4378/1792/files/73477376340.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_off0000500d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x500D 3052 bytes
SHA-256: 30603db3f38488a99cd623be6aa131f0361dfb534e539361951ce729e3b9fed7
font_01_sfnt_off00005af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AF7 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 7f39fef7f90354859dca07d631e136d05ffd984d190549f583a03bedaab781ae
font_02_sfnt_off00006d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5C 10052 bytes
SHA-256: a3b7161950445f9532a846af8b9703032ad96c9182cbfb186f63b929feff0b6d