Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55738c7cfe5e19dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-11-01 04:53:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8a19cd33a73893f2444e5df836962f7d SHA-1: bf8adb144e866bdbc572f50d7fe3584561ddd9d2 SHA-256: 55738c7cfe5e19dd93ca1b84661957150ae4e95c3600fe62b522e869d1fb9329
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=pool+blaster+vacuum+battery. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious destination or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and link farm behavior strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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/123?keyword=pool+blaster+vacuum+battery
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408601/normal_5f9ad61ee1b46.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369646/normal_5f890a0b3c662.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367665/normal_5f930f1ab4b95.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391915/normal_5f8e96e157e69.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385631/normal_5f8d3753346ae.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381531/normal_5f923f0d65c92.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374984/normal_5f8b64cc9dab7.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365639/normal_5f8bbd913fa10.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383912/normal_5f9051191c636.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375210/normal_5f8e7aa581788.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/63598712004.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/leteraxewe/bordereau_de_paiement_cnss.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/8311/8777/files/moodys_manual_2020.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/belapawerezuju/acetyl_coa_formation_from_pyruvate.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006fef.bin
bf41fdd2b6df889a2faafb2aa0e6aac20f188c6bb07f2d418214d98b8691ffa8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FEF 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081be.bin
70b42c8c6d6cc75f1d1d9a6754bddf49c7e2e27c7e9887071448f7a3420e9940
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81BE 9952 bytes