Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57ce2bb9a2acf9a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-10-30 05:47:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 14e892f4ff758bf41d036f09c6f299cc SHA-1: efe6c44decea9d73b978f1945486143aa62f85e2 SHA-256: 57ce2bb9a2acf9a355a5cb503cd12db0c83f209784fb1d1a316e60b39c0bfb00
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm and impersonates the brand Chase to phish for credentials. The embedded URL 'https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=medical+terminology+worksheets+pdf' is identified as a malicious redirector, and another link points to 'https://vatalinonabalix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234662/2901000.pdf', which is part of the credential phishing attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://vatalinonabalix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234662/2901000.pdf.
  • 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=medical+terminology+worksheets+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372100/normal_5f8c114833ffa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372399/normal_5f887e86b546f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366399/normal_5f87642ae4641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368466/normal_5f8a7705429dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365661/normal_5f8e5c6c5d34c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371808/normal_5f8b3aa466f41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366365/normal_5f874fafeb027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatalinonabalix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234662/2901000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xalipifizipig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379045/rajiwatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369189/normal_5f894f28e6bd7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371014/normal_5f8ab470724de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mijedusovineti/54353787337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mefadedosuw/vertex_astrologia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mibiwivanetuj/brown_bear_story.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_off0000445f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x445F 5832 bytes
SHA-256: d84c33c5bdbf934a33be56f2286718a2617d296f33250ad41305b6ecc70f3f92
font_01_sfnt_off00005832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5832 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 218b07faa0769bce980210fec51bfe8f85035391fc6cef99dd4f5624dba57f34