Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 558296986f8b6727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-11-02 07:10:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 33b4b0ef27cd355b4c9e4c9cd6d71317 SHA-1: a53bacc28ceff8a108999e2c6f70e23acb16ae56 SHA-256: 558296986f8b6727d94b3db6782011e9407a0ecd0cc970fadd09ba62fc59f86c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. One prominent URL, https://gettraff.ru/aws?keyword=cardo+packtalk+bold+instruction+manual, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/aws?keyword=cardo+packtalk+bold+instruction+manual
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405420/normal_5f9c2d30dd00e.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370268/normal_5f9f8c98b2bde.pdf
    • https://nakoliveb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134503524/mupipafubasotiwera.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403404/normal_5f9421c64ecd4.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410956/normal_5f96663a34607.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2863054-4754-4de7-b965-19cf2ed9d4bc/dogifazulogiwabew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0506/7590/8795/files/32486597886.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/2717/5873/files/13904089671.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bce5293b-8496-4dc1-b737-752fba6379f4/93573229708.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59df7af3-d163-4c66-8ca9-fbc47bbe5993/lab_7_-_assessment_worksheet_using_encryption_to_enhance_confidentiality_and_integrity.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b65a3172-ed69-4810-8aef-d4ebe849fe56/77937747918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/4573/9416/files/magic_wrap_skirt_instructions.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/570e3408-14f0-4dc0-b36f-dfc976daa3c4/rasuwil.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3a38c4f-2292-4d5e-9a12-5348725e26c1/bethany_moore_md.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/7131/4328/files/27008162259.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006018.bin
10356388dddf448842dfa1f4750fced41f0bb3b1afb3d71c522ce9da9a5b4e52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6018 5328 bytes